Amiga Computing Issue 031 Dec 90

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December 90

Issue 31

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Other mags are green with envy about
our disk. And our run of success
continues this month with more of the
best: There's a music composer that
lets you create your own tune from a

simple sampled sounds - and then hear

what il would sound like when played by an entire

symphony orchestra. A Disk Optlmiser that dramatlcallty

speeds up your disk access speed. An incredibly useful

Desktop Diary, Calendar and Organiser. Plus TWO great

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4 Amiga Computing

CONTENTS

REGULARS

AMIGApeople

Meet the people who make the world of Amiga go
round - the people behind the scenes who moke It
all possible, and everyday users who've found ways
of making their Amiga do extraordinary things, PIUS a
first look at new Amiga products that ore about to hit

the tfrn — — — — — 7

REVIEWS

HI DENSITY

If you've been short on sectors. Jolyon Ralph could
have the answer for you - a new device which will
give 1 .52Mb from a single floppy. ■■ 41

VIVA

Ever wanted to master a laserdisc presentation'' Well,
now you con. And It doesn't have to be as tricky - or
as expensive - as you might think, us Duncan Evcans
finds out. -,-r-i-rr 96

RAM

DESPATCHES

Deciding how much and where to add the necessary
memory boost is tough We look ot some of the
options available and review two of the most
advanced expansions on the market today 1 07

When your Amy's In a loop, stuff Is really In the soup, £ L 3 D

When Httte things go "whoopr, you'll find our Ezra Is no
dupe ......™™.™..„-.„«...«..„ M .«. M .„....™ 27

PORTFOLIO

Just to prove there's nothing your artistic Amiga
cannot do. here's some masterpieces turned out for
Amiga Centre Scotland's annual animation
festival ~ - BB

GAMES

Badlands, Beast 2,Helter Skelter. Loom. Necronom.
Nlghtbreed. Paradrold. Spy Who Loved Me. Xlphos.
Wings of fury they're a« on test this month 45

Leaving the real world behind for o while IMic Veftch
explores the alternative universe of Active Software's
Impressive ray tracing package „mn uuilH

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COMPETITION

Forget speedup boards. Here's your chance to get
your hands on some cutting edge technology And
It's so easy to enter........™ -wwn 90

MUGICIAN

With a song in his heart, maestro Paul Austin explores
the latest state of music packages on the Amiga Do
we reall need to pay for them?. tttltttlltttMtttt 118

ALMANAC

The section of the magazine that
has something for everyone -
from music to commi. DTP to
graphics. AMOS to machine
code The top experts In their
field bring you aB 'he latest newt,
plus hints ana tips that will help
you expand your use ot the
Amiga In ways you moy have
ever thought possible

MACHINE CODE

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COMMUNICATIONS

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Amiga Computing 5

ANEW face has jus!
appeared on the
Amiga scene. Steve
White joins Commodore after
seven years with Acorn.

From his position as schools
business development manager,
he will have the Job of developing
Commodore's support for both
primary and secondary education
- a daunting task which takes in
144 local education authorities
and 33,000 schools and colleges

"Commodore's approach to
this market Is what impressed me
most', said Steve. "Its route to
become an established educa-
tional supplier has been to listen to
what the market needs and
respond qulckty to those needs.

"This teacher-orientated sup-
port is exactly the right way to
succeed n education, as demon-
strated by the Commodore

Steve White., import from Acorn

Business/ Education challenge
which is open to all schools and
will result in original and creative
classroom work That is linked to
industry".

BEWITCHED, BOTHERED
AND BEWILDERED?

WITH the best will in the world, the
welt-meanlng people who set out
to prepare instructional leaflets,
training aids and manuals for
computers assume that new users
have more knowledge than Is
often the case.

For many, the exciting pur-
chase of a computer soon turns
Into a mind-blowing worry of con-
fusing switches, ports and leads
They're under pressure from the
k»ds to gel rhe thing up and run-
ning.

They grab for the manual and
soon otter, they grab for the asprin
bottle

Enter the saviour of the greoi
bewildered Graham Kelly Is one
of the few who has managed to
set aside his encyclopaedic

knowledge of the Amiga and
cater for those who can Just
about manoge lo undo the box.

In fact he goes even further
than that and actually shows new
owners how to unpack their
Amiga m the 30 minute instruction-
al video he has produced on the
A500.

Head of the long-established
Commodore dealership Trilogic.
Graham told Amiga Computing.
'We know from answering cus-
tomers' anxious telephone calls
that first time buyers And connect-
ing up and switching on the
Amiga for the first time a bit bewil-
dering.

"In this video, we hove inten-
tionally assumed that the viewer Is
a complete newcomer to com-
puters and has no knowledge of
the Amiga'. To ensure thai it

>>>>>>>>>>>>

WHAT'S

new

> > >

DRIVE FOR THE 500

LEADING American manufacturer
of hard disc systems for Amlgas.
Supra Corporation, have
announced the new SupraDrive
500XP for the Amiga 600.

Using micro-power drive mech-
anisms which consume less than 4
watts of power, the 500XP com-
bines a complete hard disc sys-
tem, up to 8Mb of ram and many
configuration options.

Its autobootlng SCSI Interface
uses technology similar to Supra's
WordSync Interface tor the
Amiga 2000, bringing advanced
performance to the 500. tt costs
S679 ror the 20Mb version.

>>>>>>>>

Supra Drive 5O0XP ...low power
corruption

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TOASTY SNACK

A TASTY offering aimed at satisfy-
ing Amiga owners' appetites for
low- cost 3D animation and paint
lacUrfies is on the way from a new
company in Kansas.

NewTek has received wide
American acclaim for its video
Toaster product which Includes
3D animation package
Lightwave 3D and 24-bit paint
system Toaster-Paint Replacing
expensive components normally
found In broadcast studios.
Toaster teams up with the Amtgo
2000 to reduce the cost of net-
work-Quality television and graph-
ics production. Lightwave 3D

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Amiga Computing 7

AMIGA 500, - 1000, AND - 2000, . ATARI ST AND ATARI STE, • IBM AND COMPATIBLE

» C.G.A., E.G.A., V.G.A., TANDY 16 COLOUR AND AD LIB CARD .

FSOKE AL YOU CAN ,
SMELL THE SMOKE

THE N0.1 NEW

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SPOT REPORT 5 T72 TANKS
MOVING WEST GRID 190852-
CONTINUING OVER"

Capt. Sean Bannon snapped his
head to the left. There was only
one place where the Russians
could be, and that was on the hill
2200 metres away. All the training,
planning and preparations were
over. Team Yankee was about to
learn if the team's seventy nine
men and twenty five million dollars
worth of equipment could do what
they were supposed to do.

Team Yankee is designed
to lest your leadership
and lactical skills to the
quick. You can display
in either "quadrant mode'
where all (our platoons
may be controlled at once
or

Full-screen Mode where the
display homes in on just one
platoon

You have the flexib
eilher an overhead map view of the
surrounding area, a simulated 3-d
view of (he|battiefield. or a status
screen showing the performance of
all vehicles in a platoon Irrespective

battle, there is a constant column of
information to the right of the screen

mg

To lh» right of the
compasses are
live icons which
represent (he
venous types ol
weaponry Available
la iht unt

The major capability on
the quadrant map screen
>* to aiiar the movement
end lor mat ton ol arty
platoon Th« whole ol the
map may be viewed at
once, or you may loom
•ntoany portion of the
battlefield using the icons
m 'he fijiii of |h| rnou

TOW

Team Yankee is
the definitive action
simulation of modern
tank warfare. Watch
scenarios unfold on A
3D battlefields with high
definition graphics and keep
track of the four tank platoons you

Ml AUUAMS TANK

ounnujorx
moon

MACI.iNE GUN - which is always available 10 the player
and has en mdmie number of rounds
SMOKE a smoke grenade which allows enemy

to be obscured
MEAT ■ a high eiplovve anti tank round
SABOT . an armor -piercing tungsten sh«l
a high. range anu lank missile

control using the unique 4 quadrant
display. Defend Hill 214 from Yuri
Potecknov's crack tank platoons, attack
Objective Link through sniper fire
from forests, protect the Langen Ga
from an entire Soviet tank battalion
at night!

Five major scenarios based
on the battles

Engine smoke

prove very
useful in conlv
your enemy il i
find yourself ir
tight corner

C/LUBE*

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pi— on)

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nlre red (or thermal)
imaging Thrs feature
is very useful for
identifying vehicles
camouflaged on the
edge ol forests
mtary to popular
ief l he thermal
image is green and
not red

U."

featured in the
New York Times
No. 1 best seller
Team Yankee.

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arrows underneath
Ihe ETA display allow |
you to scroll you i
map in any of (he
lour directions

Deed Stop icon This
red icon, causes your
platoon to come to a
dead halt when clicked

Rotation (com
compass displ

Zoom. When tnii"
icon rs accessed
Ihe central portion
ol the screen is
magnified by a
fector of 10

Laser range finder. The rang

finder will lock on to a reflet
target if the firing curse* is
placed directly over trie ob|e>
Wide formation icon. T
increases the spacing
between vehicles m ye*
platoon to 1 00 metres
Narrow formation icon
This reduces the inter
venicie spacmg m your
platoon to SO metres

In line ■ pieces

your venules i
a line abreast
relative (o you
direction
Column • places
your .ancle* in a line ahead
relative lo your direction

Echelon
places your
vehicles oneleld
lo right diagonal
relative to your
direction

Vee. a vee formeno'

'Echelon left ■ places
vehicles on a right ie
diagonal relative 10 y
direction

Wedge - places your
vehcloa |p a wedge
formetron

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I G A i»

Included exactly the information
he wanted. Graham made the
video himself using a Ferguson S-
VHS camera, Panasonic S-VHS
VCR, G2 Video Centre and an
Amiga 500.

in minute detail. It starts with
unpacking the Amiga including a
rundown on what should be sup-
plied with it and continues
through connecting up. tuning In
the TV and loading the demo disc
to a brief guide on the Amiga win-
dows system.

"We originally produced the
video to Include with Amlgas we
sell but it has proved so popular
that It is now In demand m its own
right" . added Graham.

"We intend to bring out a sec-
ond video covering more
advanced topics which should be
available sometime after
Christmas-.

Called An Introduction To The
Amiga 500, the tape Is free with
Amlgas bought from Trtloglc (0274
684289) and if sold alone costs
£14.99 plus 75p postage and
pocking.

CAT'S CREATOR GOES
INTERNATIONAL

AMONG the ranks ot avid Amiga
People, one ot the most Interest-
ing, successful and downright
friendty members is Stan Hayward,
the creator o' thai mternatlonaty
loved cartoon character Henry's
Cat.

h© doesn't make money out of
the machine. He doesn't even
own one. But he is a staunch
ambassador of the Amiga both In
this country and abroad.

Stan's support for the Amiga
comes from his unstinting work
with children. He teams the 2000
with a Chromacolour system and
fits own talents to bnng the Joy of
animation to thousands of young-
sters,

Through workshops. Stan uses
the computer to open up new
areas of learning development for
children os young as four and
especially 'or youngsters with
learning difficulties. If It were not
for the Amiga, they would be
denied the pleasure and stimula-
tion of seeing their drawings come

WHAT-S

new

> > > >

includes modeling, animation
and rendering, al integrated Into
one point and click riterface.

ToasterPamt brings broadcosf
resolution and a full palette within
the reach of graphic artists.

Through the Duill-ln frame
grabber, users can point on still
video frames or create original ort
in more than 16 rrtHlon colours.

Video Toaster Is a card which
fits into the video slot of the
Amiga 2000 As Amiga
Computing went to press, It was
undergoing final tests and should
be available soon.

For more details. Newtek are at
215 East 8th Street. Topefca, Kansas
66603 - ring 0101 913 354 1 146.

>>>>>>>

Stan Ha ywood

to life - a skill from which Stan has
made his living for 30 years.

I work totally with the Amiga. I
suppose you could soy I'm Its
biggest salesman" . he told Amiga
Computing, *l do Henry's Cat to
earn my Hying but I do the com-
puter animation with children (or
satisfaction",

When interviewed for Amiga
People. Stan had lust stepped off
a plane from Canada where he
had been sponsored by
Commodore to run workshops at
a huge animation festival. While In
Canoda he made many con-
tacts, particularly among the

American Artists in Therapy move-
ment, Undaunted, he Is soon to
run a teachers workshop In
Lewisham and has plans to
extend his animation therapy into
hospitals and prisons, Intending to
attract more commercial anima-
tion companies to lend their sup-
port.

"I am currently working on a
new Henry's Cat series for
America and there are plans for a
new Chromacolour animation
package featuring the charac-
ter', he said, "It will Include a
scaled-down version of fhe
Chromacolour system specially
designed for use in schools, will
use Deluxe Paint 3 and wW come
with a whole range of Henry's Cat
movements on disc. Of course. It
vM be based around the Amiga'.

AMIGA, THE GREAT
LEVELLER

IT Isn't often that a lowly bobby
can get Ihe drop on his Chief
Super or a traffic warden can lell
the CID a thing or two.

The police force is not a body

Video Toaster graphics in action

>>>>>>>

PRO APPROACH

CANADIAN firm Eschalon
Development have produced a
set of professional video utilities
for use with the Amiga. Programs
include Subtltler, Creditor,
Prompter, Image Presenter and
Ascension.

Subtltler allows users to Import
text from a wordprocessor and
set font sizes at the click of the
mouse to produce subtitles for
films and videos.

Creditor scrolls text at any
speed with a variety of font sizes
and styles. Users simply type In
text, change the setting and start
me VTR

Prompter Is a complete

teleprompflng package. With
various fonts, styles and video
modes. It easily controls speed,
cue marker and position

Image Presenter Is an image
display program totally controlled
through ARexx. Its built-in script
language also allows fancy wipes
and transitions.

A powerful multi-media presen-
tation tool. Ascension otters an
easy-to-use point and cHck Inter-
face and a scripting long ua go It
fully supports sound, samples,
speech, animation and stills

Also included In the package
are a side text scroller, video pat-
tern, colourbar. safe area and
background generators and
video slate plus nine fonts, four

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Amiga Computing 9

AMIGA

which easily adapts to role rever-
sal but the Amiga is currently
changing all that.

One night a month, that world-
renowned centre of crime detec-
tion 5cotland Vara* hosts a unique
band or Amiga people - The
Metropolitan Police Amateur
Computing Club.

When the tiattlc men turn off
their blue lights, the detectives tor-
sake their latest stakeout and the
wardens put away their note-
books, computing comes to the
fore for the 600 club members.
Treasurer of the club and leading
light ot Its popular Amiga section e
PC Stuart Falrciough. a member
of the Bow Traffic Division which
covers the whole of East London.

Open to all 27,000 police offi-
cers of The Met. to specials and to
some civilians working for the
force, the club has a growing-
membership.

"Whenever you get a group
together, there is always a copper
who is an expert on something
from plumbing To carpentry", said
Stuart. 'It's the some wfrh comput-
ers. We nave a lot ot people who

are starting out and haven't got a
clue and we have members who
can pass on their knowledge on
anything from wordprocesslng
and DTP to viruses and databases.

"On the Amiga front. I decided
to arrange a monthly series of
intormal talks coving a whole
range of Amiga topics and I also
edit a lively Amiga section in our
quarterly newsletter.

"The meetings are a good
laugh, more Hke a social club, but
instead of talking about golf or
some other topic, we play with
computers. I'm just a police con-
stable but I can see someone at
the club, chat to him about the
Amiga then realise he Is a Chief
Super".

The dub Includes many cham-
pions of the Amiga. Stuart started
his computing on a CM but soon
became a convert

"Once I hod the pennies it was
straight down to the shop to buy
an Amiga 1000". he said. "Now
more and more members are
going for the Amiga with young
cfcjb members starting to upgrade
to the 2000'

Although the club is purely a

social organisation and nothing to
do with the official police com-
puter system, members do pick up
useful Ideas which help them In
the increasingly computerised
world of crime fighting. One
member has developed a com-
puterised key-holder database to
replace the manual card files pre-
viously used to keep records of
official key holders.

"I'm no expert, but I get a lot of
club members ringing me up with
questions about their Amlgas",
added Stuart "The only thing I
draw the line at is calls after 10pm.
When I'm on the earty shift starting
at 4am. That's just not on".

FEELING GOOD
AND DRY

EXETER'S licensees ore rumoured
to be weeping over a dramatic
drop m bar takings. The beer's not
off. so what can be the cause of
This worrying phenomenon? The
blame can be laid squarely at the
door of Commodore's CDTV.

That chirpy Amiga person
Jeremy Rhlll and his cohorts at
Dtgtta International (0395 270273)

hove been up to theW eyes -n Dr
Feelgood, 'heir massive health
education program aimed at
CDTV and backed by
Commodore.

"it got so bad that we've been
practically chained to The office" .
reported a jaded Jeremy "We've
even had to do our drinking at our
desks".

On the more serious side. Dt.
Feelgood was first mooted in a
conversation between Jeremy
and Commodore's David
Pleasance at this year's Spring
European Computer Trade Show.

Meetings with Commodore's
top American lady Gal WeHngton
followed and the project landed
Dlglta with three months of hard
graft.

Not surprising when you look at
the content which takes full
advantage of the huge scope of
CD.

"It has turned out to be like a
home health encyclopaedia",
said Jeremy, "it covers First Aid.
what to eat. what to drink, how to
exercise, what not to touch, what
vaccinations you need for which
countries and facts as diverse as

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A portable studio was moved
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The result promises to be one of
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*lt has demanded my entire
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such a thing again"

There's hope yet for Devon's
ailing licensed trade.

WIDER AUDIENCE
FOR AMIGA ART

CHESHIRE photographer Richard
Tucker has come up with a useful
service for Amiga owners who
wont a wider circulation tor the
pictures fhey create on their
screens

He converts picture files Into
slides from all formats Including
overscan and HAM Richard also
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ber and high quality RGB camera
These pictures can be soved
either as IFF or IFF24.

"I had been doing this for my
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"Some Amiga owners want
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but the service is particularly use-
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view to them being pubHshed"

The one-off cost of a slide is £d
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ADVENTURE WRITING
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TONY Heap is a man with a mis-
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text adventures through his
company Heyley Software, he
now aims to encourage other
Amiga people to write ftiett own
adventures.

To do this he has produced
Hatrack II. an interactive adven-
ture generator which allows even
the novice computer buff to write
text adventures without the hassle
of programming

A fully interactive package.
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the state of play. Features include
built-in multiple sentence parser,
mouse-driven graphical com-
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control over screen layout and
the facflity to generate your own
adventure game disc.

A special program produces
standalone adventures which can
then be freely distributed without
permission. Hatrack II cosh £2°. 95
and Tony has plans to produce a
graphics version.

He can be contacted at 27
Wlnnlngton Road, Marple.
Stockport SK6 6PD.

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RUMOURS are going the rounds
that Electronic Arts are to pro-
duce a new version of their popu-
lar Amiga melody package
Deluxe Music. But they're ugly
ones, according to EA spokesman
Simon Jefferv

"There's nothing solid happen-
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said 5lmon "It could be a possibiu-
Ty for the very fat and distant
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CDTV will be used to show off
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Since its launch at the
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Shopper Show

More space, more stands and more bargains
at computing's annual Christmas extravaganza

CHRISTMAS bargains are the
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The 26,658 visitors to last
year's inaugural show at
Alexandra Palace saved
around £1 milon on special offers.

An exit pou of attendees revealed
that In excess of 95 per cent
considered purchases there had
resulted In "substantial savings" wtfh
reported figures ranging from £50 to
£1000.

This vear the larger venue of
Wembley Conference Centre will
accommodate many more sfands
ond with an extra day added.
Shopper 90 is tipped to double that
record

Making its exhibitions debut at
Shopper will be the Amiga version of
K-Spread 4. the latest accounts
package from Kuma. AKo there will
be Adimens 3.0, an advanced
relational database produced In
association with AOI of Germany
Kuma will be offering special show
prices on K-RogeT. their
computerised Thesaurus.

New at Shopper will be an
Improved version of Micro English,
the educational pockage from LCL
It has been specially designed to

cover the new oral communication
section of the 1991 National
Curriculum syllabus and will be seen
along with a wide range of other
LCL education packages covering
Maths. English and French.

AMOS. The Creator (torn
Database Software already has a
huge following and fans of this
creation package will have their first
chance to see the next In the series.
AMOS 3D. demonstrated.

In a big screen presentation,
Iraditional to Database Software's
exhibition appearances. AMOS 3D
win be put through its paces along
with the latest in me successful Fun
School educational series. Fun
School 3.

The Amiga Ught Phaser Gun. the
centrepiece of the US Action stand,
wit! be bundled with a new hunting

game. Also featured will be ram
expansions and a tutorial disc for
Deluxe Paint.

Shareware for the Amiga will
have Its spot at Shopper on the
Advantage stand, which will also
include many useful peripherals,
while Andrews & Cowen will be
selling Amtgos together with
external drives and a range of
leisure software.

Those who want the new version
5 of word processing package
Protext. will find It on the Amor stand
along with their database program
Prodata Good deals on Amigas.
plus a wide range of peripherals, will
be on offer from Brighton Computer
Supplies ond many visitors will have
thek first chance to see the Amiga
version of the popular Fiextdump
package from Core Electronics.

Major Promotion

AS port of its promotions
fof The Computer
Shopper Show. Blenheim
Dotobose Exhibitions
nave launched the
largest ever leaflet
dstrlbuton for a show of
this kind. One million

leaflets have gone out to
potential visitors with 19
issues of the UK's top
compute' magazines.

They are also being
moiled directly to the
26,658 people who
attended last year's

show at Alexandra
Palace.

Underlining the scope
of this exercise, the
leaflets weigh in at five
tons ond if laid end to
end would stretch from
Bristol to Leeds

Expandable upgrades for the
Amiga. Kick Start cards and virus
protectors will be the offerings from
new company European Peripheral
Distribution, making their Shopper
debut. wh*e Evesham Micros win be
selling external drives, printers, tarn
upgrade boards and a variety of
software at attrocttve prices.

GSiS Computers will be giving
demonstrations of energy manage-
ment systems while offering good
deals on Amigas. GPS will be
unveiling a number of new Amiga
software tines from the USA. Among
the offerings from Gastelner
Technologies will be the Amiga-
compatible Gastelner Mouse.

Shareware discs Including games,
utilities and business packages will
be featured on the Gemini Software
stand, and Harpers will feature
Amiga hardware and a variety of
Interesting accessories.

Amiga machines, software and
peripherals wW be on sate by Micro
Anvlka while Mlcrotext will be
featuring their teletext adaptors with
supporting software

In addition to seeking customeis
for the" Amigas and software. Miles
Better Software will also be using the
Shopper Show to seek out a suitable
distributor for their Amiga tracker
ball

As well as running the Computer
Football Association finals at
Shopper. Mutant Software will have
a range ot games on sale and
public domain buyers will be
catered for by Public Domtnator

Rombo will feature their Vldl-
Amiga frame grabbing package
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will be on offer from both Senlec PD
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When Silica Shop go to a show
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Amiga specialists Third Coasi
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They're on their
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Thousands of computer football
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finals to be played at The Computer
Shopper Show in December

And as well as chasing national

honours, they could face the best
that Europe has to offer when
Shopper becomes the venue tor me
first European Cup of the computer
world.

Formed by Steve Anderson ot
Mutant Software. The Computer
Football Association is dedicated to
promote excellence In soccer
simulation on home computers. For
Its first ever Challenge Cup
competition, it has chosen Anco's
Kick Off and Kick Off 2 played on
Amiga machines. It will hold the
Quarter finals, semi finals ond final at
Wembley Conference Centre on the
Sunday of Shopper. December 9.

Already more than 5.000 players
have signed up tor the preliminary
rounds to De played throughout the
country, The eventual winner will
scoop the 1990 Challenge Cup and
a prize of £1 ,000. A trophy and £500
will go to the runner-up white the last
16 will each receive a medal and
£100.

The Italian champion has been
lined up to take on the eventual UK
champion at Shopper. Organised by
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CFA championship has taken Holy
by storm with 15.000 entrants. There
are also moves to attract the soccer
simulation champions from France
and Germany to test their skills at
Shopper.

'Support for the competition Is
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the moment entries are rolling in at
20 a day. We hope to get a big
screen put In at The Computer
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and spectators will get a better view
of the excelent computer football in
store. With such a big entry, the
players who win their way through to
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The shop for Santas

THE Computer Shopper Show is
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in the largest number of Father
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Stands will be seasonally
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With 280 stands and co-operation
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The only request ts that they leave
their reindeer at home!

Helping hand for charity

THE Computer Shopper Show 1990
will be used as a vehicle to raise
money for The Starlight Foundation,
a charity set up by Dynasty actress
Emma Samms to grant the wishes of
seriously ill chiloVen.

Starlight has been operating In
America since 1982 and now has
thriving offshoots in Britain, Canada
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fighter, meeting Santa Claus In
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marching with the Scots Guards
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"We are delighted to work with
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us during the event", said Starlight's
Iva Shelnbart

It's so easy to get there

With such a wealth of products on
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Code in the head

t AM well into assembly language. In that now
l have started fo learn how to program In It. I
won't be giving it up until I'm coding "sciol-
lles" with the best ot them.

Somehow if agrees with me, whereas C did
Just the opposite. I'm even enjoying If in a
rofher masochistic way.

I would be grafeful I' you would answer
these Queries (even though you shouldn't talk
to queries) :

1. Can you recommend a book which will go
through the fundamentals of the languoge
again to refresh my memory, but then go on
to handling the screen Quickly? If this is not
possible with one book, how about recom-
mending a couple of good ones then?

2. Has AmC ever printed an assembly tutorial
In Its hallowed pages? (I owned one of those
nasty SI things until recently, so I've not been
buying AmC for very long.)

3 Which assembler do you advise me to
spend my pennies on?

Thank you for reading, and I hope in
answering these questions for me, Other
would - be coders win benefit too.
P.S. I whole-heartedly agree with Duncan
about KOI 1 and Damocles. At last the truth Is
told...

William Rae Ashlngton, Northumberland.

Well now, H you check out the machine code
piece In the Almanac section this month you

will see that Jolyon. our resident guru on mat-
ters codelike, has in (act reviewed such a
book.

Jolyon also tapped out a large number of
features In the past and will be continuing lo
do so In Ihe Almanac section.

As to assemblers, well basically there are
three contenders, Argasm (which Is fast).
Devpac (which U good) and A68k (which is
tree).

All major stockists should have Argasm and
Devpac - take o look through fhe ads. A68k is
the official standard for the Amiga, It should
be available from all worthwhile Pd libraries
and BBSs.

Organised chaos

IN the post I hove been able to gain a great
deal of help from this section of the magazine,
so I am hoping you can help me now with a
specific problem.

I purchased my Amiga because, as I am
sure you will agree. It is the best computer, ft
has now grown to 1 meg plus a second drive
and oil is great, except that I also have a Psion
organiser and the 1 28k data pack Is getting
full and needs tidying. I understand that the K
Comms communications pack will allow my
Psion and the Amiga to talk, but I can't find
anywhere to buy the lead to connect the two

The official Psion/IBM lead Is available but it
comes complete with software for the IBM.

which I don't need .and is naturally expen-
sfve.

Will the K Comms pack be suitable? And
where can I get a lead to connect between
the Amiga and the Psion?

P. Neal, South Woodford, London

Hmmm. I see your grief. Well, absolutely any
comms package will work - the lead is the
only problem. It may be easier lo make your
own.

A serial link will normally only use two
lines.so It's really Just a question of finding the
pin-out details for the Psion.

Are any details Included with the Psion?
Does anyone out Ihere know off-hand what
they are?

Makin' tracks

I AM considering a business In the computer
vinyl cutting field, and as far os I can see I
have three options.

1 . To use the Amiga as It is with the appropri-
ate hardware and software. The trouble is
finding the software and hardware that is
specifically designed for the purpose of vinyl
cutting.

2. To buy the necessary equipment so that my
Amiga con emulate an IBM compatible. I
know there is existing available software and
hardware for the IBM.

3. To buy the A-Max 2 to emulate the Apple

Amiga Computing 27

Macintosh, but t have know idea about the
software and hardware options available for
the Mac.

As the situation stands I would prefer either
options 1 or 2. as I know both these systems
very well.

Also, it you could help me, could you
please tell where t could buy all this equip-
ment whichever system you decide to recom-
mend.

J.Gregson. Hockerlng, Norwich.

Hmmm. I don't know ol any software/ hard-
ware for either the Mac or the PC that would
do this (although if someone wants to write In
and surprise me, go ahead). So maybe PCs
are useful for something.

In that case you are In luck. In this very
Issue is a review of a cheap and friendly PC
emulator from KCS. I'd give them a ring first to
check compatibility with the software that you
are considering.

If they can't help you another PC emulator
Is to be launched real soon - the AT Once. If
you read next month's mag you should get a
full review.

Font fault

WITH reference to page 59 of the October
1990 issue and ttie section *How to make it
work", having made room on my working disc
as suggested. I then copied over the fonts
from my Workbench 1.3 In order to use them
to give myself a change.

Not finding o fonts directory, I tried placing
It in the following places; As located In the
Workbench and Dpaint 2 . in the Pagesetter
drawer, in the CGFonts drawer But the demo
would not show them In the typeface menu
Is it possible for them to be used with this
demo? If so. can you tell me how. in easy
steps, as I am still learning how to use the
Amiga.

I almost forgot to say what a great demo
Pagesetter Is. I am really tempted to buy the
real thing.

R. E. Golding, Werrlngton, Peterborough,

Combs

Ooops. If booting off the Pagesetter disk
(which you should be) the fonts should be
located In a directory called "fonts". In fact,
there isn't one on the disk .so you'll have to
make one. From the CU Just type "makedlr

cd013:fonts". Now you con copy across oil the
fonts you want.

I should hope you do want to buy
Pagesetterll - It's Jolly good and I'm not just
saying that. Vou might like to know that you
can now get if for just £52.95 from Silica Shop
(071-560 4000).

Mobile printouts

TO take better advantage of the excellent
output of Compugraphic fonts used with
Pagesetter II I have recently upgraded my 24
pin Panasonic to a Hewlett Packard Deskjet
Plus, which means I can print the
Compugraphic fonts to a resorption of 300 dpi
instead of 1 80 dpi.

This is the real reason for my letter. Using the
HP Deskjet driver In Preferences I soon discov-
ered that although the first graphic dump
after switch-on was correctly positioned at the
top of the page, all subsequent printouts were
l/2in lower, as the printer fed this amount of
paper just before printing.

After many phone calls to Hewlett Packard
and Hi-Voltage, from whom I purchased the
printer (none of whom could offer any help or
did not want to know mainly because they
had no knowledge of the Amiga) I eventually
realised that the problem lay with the perfora-
tion skip commands embedded In the
Preferences driver. Using FHezop I managed to
edit the driver so that the driver turns oft the
perforation skip so that every graphic printout
st oris In the some place on the page.

If any of your readers has an Amlgo driving
a HP Deskjet Plus and would Nke a copy of the
modified driver, I would be pleased to send
them a copy on receipt of a disk and return
postage etc.

John Farrar, Elm Cottage. 2 Marsh Lane, Hayle.

Cornwall TW7 4 PS.

Great, thanks a lot tor that tip. There are a few
happier DeskJet owners out there now.

While we're on the subject of Gold Disk, I'd
lust like to take this opportunity to say that the
editor got It wrong.

The price ol Pro Page 2.0 will actually be
395 dollars and so will be around £250 In this
country.

The distribution of Gold Disk software is now
spreod among Gem, SDL and Precision
Software as well as HB. wtth more to (ollow In
the future.

Disk disaster!

ABOUT six months ago I boughl an A590 hord
drive. It worked perfectly, so after three
months of untroubled use I decided to add 2
megs of fast ram to the drive.

The Installation process looked easy (I had
already fitted a 1.3 rom successfully), so I
decided to do the Job myself. I reckoned that
If anything was going to go wrong with the
drive It would have done so within the first few
months, so I took the chance and voided the
warranty.

Everything was great, there l was with a per-
fectly working A590 and 3 Mb ol ram the envy
of all my friends. That is until a month ogo
when the drive started misbehaving.

I decided to give Commodore a ring and
ask their odvice. They told me that they no
longer ran a technical service for users and
that l should contact my dealer.

It was then that t discovered that the dealer
had gone out of business Being a member of
ICPUG I wrote to their chairman for help. He
kindly gave me the address of Commodore's
accredited repair company,

Meanwhile I faxed Commodore hoping
they would help (that was four weeks ago and
I'm still waiting after three further phone cote).

I was informed by the repair company that
the standard cost of A590 repairs was £109.25,
The problem Is that if I go ahead and send the
drive for repairs. I may find that the rault lies
with my computer and waste money and
time. So what do I do?

in the hope that you may be able to help,
the foutt Is as follows: On power up the drive
fan works OK, but the drive itself doesn't spin.
Instead it makes an awful clicking noise which
varies between 2 - 15 minutes. Obviously. It
doesn't auto-boot either. When the drive does
eventually fire up' I usually find that a number
of blocks hove errors, specifically on the cylin-
der the heads are parked.

I hope you are able to help as I'm getting
very frustrated. The moral of this story is: Don't
buy from small dealers, and don't play with
things that are under warranty.

Jim Campey, Brentford. Middlesex.

It does sound o bit like there's a problem with
the drive. Did you try removing the ram again?
Have you tested any other drive or peripheral
on the expansion port? Don't worry about fur-
ther damage to the drive. It looks like it's going
away for repairs anyway.

tt seems odd that the drive should start mis-
behoving in this way suddenly. On bootup
does the screen stay white while the drive Is
being accessed? This would seem to indicate
that auto-conflgure was not toklng place
(remember that the ram must auto-configure
as well).

Part of the problem could be down to power
supplies. I know that the A590 has its own, but
when ram is added - especially that much -
there Is a further drain on the supply. It
depends what type of chips you use.

Demo trouble II

I HAVE just spent a very frustrating hour and a
half attempting to get the Pagesetter 2 demo
to work.

First, the readme, pp file does not open and
disgorge its contents when clicking the Icon in
Workbench. I attempted to read It by using
the TYPE and ED commands in CU, but was
told it contained binary code and couldn't be
read.

Clearty It Is not written in AscH code and ts
not a .DOC type which can normally be read
using those commands. So what am I doing

28 Amiga Computing

wrong 7

Second, when clicking the PS 2 demo toon,
after o period of disc drive activity, I get a
requester ro Please insert volume CGFonts: in
any drive.

Choosing the IGNORE option. I get a second
requester stating No fonts available on directo-
ries FONTS or CGFonts ! Choosing the RESUME
option merely returns me to the WB screen.

Incidentally, o tip for your other readers. You
can delete a directory in one go even if It con-
tains other files. Simply enter the command
DELETE DlRNAME ? ALL where DlRNAME Is the
nome of the directory you wish to delete.

Finally, there's an error In you article on
DPaint on page 94. The 3rd column, 2nd full
paragraph stares "For neoily alt occasions It will
be a 256 by 320 screen display". Unfortunately,
there is no option for a 256 x 320 screen, only a
320 x 200 as shown on the print of the format:
screen at the bottom of page 95. (I assume
you were referring to Lo - Res).

K.LRlchards, Tockington, Bristol.

Right. Firstly your problem with the doc file Is
due to It not being an Ascll text file. It was
once, but then to save space It was crunched
using Powerpacker Clicking on Ihe Icon will
activate PPmore. a file reader that will read the
text while H Is still pocked.

The reason this wouldn't work for you is
because you have to boot up on the demo
disk. Otherwise Amlgados will look In the C:
directory on your Workbench disk and so will
be unable to find PPmore.

Secondly. Boot up on the demo diskl The
startup- sequence contains the assigns required
to tell PSII where to find the scaieable font. So
Ihere you go. It Is always worthwhile looking
through the c: directory on the coverdisk to find
all sorts of goodies that Jeff has left there.

Laslty. Ok. guilty. If should have read 320 x
256. which Is the size of a PAL lo-res screen.

Doubtful disks

SORRY to have rocomplaln. but I feel I must
take you lot to task. I do like the magazine, it is
informative, welt produced and gives up-to-
the-minute information, and is reasonably well
balanced (though I would like to see a llttte
more serious computing Information, especially
tor the less experienced "computer maniacs").

But I have a gripe - yes .you guessed It I THE
COVER DISCH

Now I do think It Is a good Idea, but If it is
going to be produced, why. oh why Isn't It
done properly ? We have had an Amiga for
nearly two years and it started out as a games
machine for my two lads.

But we discovered Amiga Computing and
gradually I got interested In It. and now we ore
getting to see how useful all those nice utilities
you put on the disk coukj be. Problem Is. very
few of them work I

The kids copied Ihe games from the discs
(and usuaty they were OK) and the cover disc
was stowed away in the disc box. I now am try-
ing to use such gems as PPShow or
Powerpacker. only to find on loading, that

"Error occurred on loading Error code 212'
comes up more often than not.

It even happened on this month s cover
disc on the two Amos programs II (Wacky
Wabbfts worked OK though I)

The last straw was when I looked back to
August 89 disc to use dlsksalve and dtekcheck-
er. The programs did not even appear to be
on the dbc.

I followed Instructions from the magazine on
using the utilities but diskchecker or dlsksalve
are unknown commands as far as our Amiga
is concerned. When I look at the Workbench
Icons only the Docs seem to be there.

I know we could return the discs to the sup-
pliers but why should we be without them for a
couple of months (or lose them oltogether if
some of your other correspondents' experi-
ences are anything lo go by).

Might I suggest a little more quality control
on the production of the master discs would
be in order, if this is not economic then I sug-
gest that either the Idea be shelved and we
go back to paying £1 .90 or whatever for the
magazine, or you charge us a little more and
we have something that we can use.

Sorry to be critical, but we long-suffering
consumers often have to put up with second
class devices and non-serviceable goods in
the name of the great god economy.

Mr Upset, Southcote, Reading

Well, first off, the Amos programs are to be
used in conjunction with Amos, so they won't
actually run from Workbench Just by clicking
the Icons. The icons are there Just to make It
easier to copy the files off to a working disk.

We go to quite unbelievable lengths to
make sure that the disks we send out do work.
We test the actual programs to make sure they
work on all Ihe machines in the office with oil
sorts of combinations of memory and
Workbench versions.

Some of the programs that require extra
files and a bit of setting up (like the
Pogesetterll demo for example) hove a lot of
files In the C: directory ot the disk and perhaps
some extra lines In the startup-sequence to
make them work.

Normally there is extensive documentation
to allow you to set up the system Ihe way you
like, but this may require some undertonding
at your end.

That's why H Is a good Idea to make back-
up copies of the disk and delete unwanted
files to make room rather than frying to copy
everything onto another disk. Because of this
you may experience problems If you don't
boot off the cover disk.

The case ot the missing files is down to you.
Either Ihe disk was faulty (which Is quife
unlikely) or you have accidentally deleted
them. They were definitely on Ihe disk.as tens
of thousands of other users can testify.

(Despatches

Doing a deal

l UVE In the Netherlands and t have something
to say. First I want to excuse myself for my bod
English, I hope you con read it.

I want to say That you guys are making a real-
ly good magazine. In the Netherlands we
have only lone Dutch magazine and IT
comes only six times a year.

I want to ask you a question. How can I
order something In the UK ? They say with a
money order, postal order or a sterling
cheque. But I don't know what all of that Is.
Can you explain to me how I can do It ?

i went to London (nice city), to buy my
copy of AMOS, t write AMOS with copitols
because it is a super great program. It was
not yet for sale In the Netherlands. The
Netherlands is always a step behind.

M.Haveman. Ardennenloan 23, 1966 RS
Heemskerk .Nederland.

Thanks for the nice comments. K you wont to
order something from a company here (and It
depends on the company) you have quite a
tew choices.

To start with, you can get a Eurocheque
book from your bank. This means you can
write a cheque valid for ony currency In
Europe^.The bank will also be able to help you
with an International Money Order, which
basically means they will convert your money
Into a cheque In the currency of your choice.

The easiest way is to use a credit card •
either yours or someone else's (though It
might be nice If you asked them first). Access,
Visa, Barclaycard, American Express - they're
all good tor most places, but give them a ring
first.

Basic blues

I AM currently studying A level computer stud-
ies and have just started my final year. I will
soon have to start my projecr, but will have to
program It on an Educational Standard RM
Nimbus. Due to the size of the project and its
importance to my final grade i was wonting
to find a way to run RM Basic on my Amiga
500. 1 have written to a few other magazines
(all to no avail) requesting information on any
emulators capable ot running RM Basto.

I do not wish lo buy a hardware emulator
such as KCS power board because I will prob-
ably have no need for PC emulation after my
project is complete and secondly I can't
afford ft

What l hope to do is load RM Bdslc at
school on the Nimbus and work on my project
and then save the program onto an MSdos

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formatted disk. Then toad an emulator at home
on my Amy and continue to work on the same
program

I hove 1 Mb of ram. a second 3.5 drive and a
Stat LC-10 colour printer. Would the emulator
be able to use the second drtve and the print-
er? A person I know (I won't say friend because
he owns as ST) has a Transformer, but I don't
have any information on It and want to know If
ft win work before I buy It.

Robert Downs. Blackpool, Lanes.

Not being too familiar with RMBasIc I reckon tt
is pretty much like any other Basic. If you don't
want to use cunning graphics and suchlike you
may get away with lust running the programs
from Amiga Basic. In mat case all you need to
do Is get hold of Dos2Dos, CrossDos or
MessyDos to transfer the files from PC disks.

The Transformer does work some of the time.
Try getting to know this bloke better, that's my
advice. He can certainly let you know whether
your software will run on It.

Remember, remember

I want to reply to Simon Champion's letter in
the September issue of Amiga Computing
about a recommended ram expansion. First. I
wonder why someone who Is wMIng to pay for
on A 1500 seems unwilling lo spend money on
an expansion. For me. the expansion is a
necessity The A 1 500- a luxury.

To answer the real question, Mr.Champlon.
the best thing you can do is to search the
magazine for ads of memory expansions. But to
save you the trouble I did Just that and come
up with the following recommendation ■ Buy a
hair mag expansion, which costs £40 or less,
and then, when you find out that it s too little,
go to Diamond ana use their part exchange
scheme to change this Into on 8M expansion
populated to 2Mb for just £99. It's cheap and
expandable.

To be honest, I recommend that you don't
even buy the 512k expansion.

It's too restrictive Remember, when I
bought my A501 two years ago, It cost me
£140, and now for the same price you can get
2Mb,

Eyal, Jerusalem, Israel

Polyglot printers

I HAVE some questions for you:
1. 1 use o Star LC-10 colour printer, When I print
a picture the printouts are almost always
stripey. Each tine seems to be overlapped by
one pixel. How do I correct the spacing to
solve this problem?

I have read the 1.3 manual, but to no aval). I
use the EpsonX printer driver, and l have tried
all the Star LC-10 drivers on the August cover
disk. The stripes are still there.
2. Your article In the September Issue about
wordprocessors was very Interesting. However. I
still have a question: Is there a wordprocessor
that will allow me to send escape sequences
to the printer? I was thinking about ProWrtte or

Pen Pal, because of the possibility to use the
Amiga fonts and IFF graphics in a document,
but the ortlcle said nothing about the possibili-
ty of sending escape sequences.
Before I got my Amiga 2000 1 used an Amstrad
CPC6128. and I used the wordprocessor
Tasword. With Tasword, it was easy to send any
codes to the printer

3. b there a PD program that wW convert a IFF
HAM picture to a * normal" 32 colour picture
(or 64 when using extra Halfbrite) ? if you know
about such a program, l wouia like to know
where I could get It.

4, I have recently bought a disc full of fonts
from a PD library. The problem Is that none of
them Include International characters

As I am a Norwegian, the Norwegian char-
acters <* ) are especially Important. Do you
know about such a font disk?

Rolf Nordeide,
Ostre Hopsvel. 46 N-5043 HOP, Norway.

The lines may be something to do with the
micro-spacing of the carriage. Some printers
allow you to adjust this. Look up the manual.

I don't think you are going to hove any luck
trying lo find a wordpro with graphics capabili-
ty that will allow you lo send escape codes
(though I'm welcome to be proved wrong).
You'd be much better off getting Pagesefterll.
There are plenty of picture manipulation pro-
grams. Plxmate Is excellent, as Is The Art
Department, but neither of those are PD.

A while back George Thompson Services
put together a collection of such software on a
couple o! disks. Give Ihem a ring on 077082-
234. They may be be able to help with the font
problem too.

Oh what a Circus

Recently t bought a copy of Hisoft's Devpac
Two from a computer store in Oxford Street.
London. I paid £9.95 for It. When I returned
home ta few days later. I tried to load the
package Into my Amiga and found that Disk
One did not work.

When I checked the disk I found it to con-
fain no data at all - as if it was an unformatted
blank disk. I returned the package to the shop
where I bought it by registered post, clearly
explaining that I would like my money back,
and ordered the piece of software from a
(much cheaper) mail order company.

After a telephone call, during which the
manager of the store admitted that the soft-
ware was faulty, they refused to let me have
my money back, but In turn offered me a
credit note

I wrote back to him to say this was unac-
ceptable to me. because I could not affora to
have nearly £60 of my money tied up In this
way. This was more than four weeks ago and
as yet I have heard nothing further from them.

Oliver Stockley, Klngsway, Shipston-on-stour,

Warwickshire

If sounds as rf you are definitely entitled to your
money bock. Unfortunately being legally In
the right does nol always help In these matters

as quite a few shops will try to pull the wool
over your eyes.

I'll give 'em a bell and try ond get rt sorted.
If the threat of being no longer on Ezra's
Christmas list doesn't stun them Into submis-
sion then you need help. Pop along to your
local Citizens Advice Bureau. They will be
able to provide you with legal old which may
not cost you a penny.

Duncan dares too much

As the developer of the gome Lost Patrol for
Ocean. I read the review of out game in the
current Issue of Amiga Computing with great
Interest.

That Duncan Evans thought the game poor
Is of no consequence. Of course tastes are
subjective and his was the first bad review out
of 12 European magazines.

But we do object most strongly to his final
assertion that any reviewer who said the
game was a good one was a liar, lying to
maintain Ocean's advertising revenue.

We find this statement unjust, Irresporuable
and totally unfounded, and now feel that a
printed retraction is in order with the reviewer
concerned disciplined.

Is Mr. Evans also calling his fellow journalists
on your Amiga Action magazine Bars for their
good review of the game? Perhaps
this young man has an axe to grind with
Ocean themselves? If this Is the case then
even his reviews can no longer be held as
objective.

I G. Harllng. Envision, Bristol

Well, yes. I'd have to agree with you
there. Duncan can get a bit carried away
sometimes (though not far enough for
most people s liking). I have spoken to
Duncan since and he regrets having cast
asplrtlons as to the Integrity ol the journalistic
fraternity.

While It Is not our Intention here at Amiga
Computing to muzzle our reviewers when it
comes to giving a game a poor review we
regrel that Duncan went too for In this case.

Amiga Computing 31

Feature

Emulate

One computer not good enough for you?
"7"" ' Want more?
Jason Holborn and John Kennedy look at the current state-of-the-art

in Amiga fancy dress

Some people are never satis-
fied One computer pet
family just Isn't enough In
these decadent times' Not only do
they wont an Amiga. They want a
PC. an Apple and an Atari

Emulation provides a solution to
the problem of becoming burled
under a mountain ot different
makes of hardware. Thanks to a
combination of software and hard-
ware, you Amiga can play "Let's
pretend" and be any computer
you want it to be.

in theory at least, emulating
another computer Is easy. All you
need Is the correct processor (a
68000 for ihe Mac and ST: already
present in the Amiga, a 8080-com-
patible for PCs) and o copy of the
operating system

Then you just tie up a few loose
ends, such as input from the key-
board and output to the screen,
and any legally written programs
will work fine.

The mam problem is getting hold
of the operating system of the
computer to be copied. Since It is
usually held in rom. it's normally
only a matter of either using the
roms themselves, or moking a disk
Image of them and using that.

There is a smalt snag here: It may
be illegal. Whoever wrote the
operating system holds the copy-
right, and they may go so far as to
only license you to use it This
means there are only certain cir-
cumstances m which you can use
It. and copying it on to a floppy for
a friend certoinfy won'' be one of
them.

This sort of legoi battle has long
been ossigned to the tiling cabi-
nets for the PC's operating system.
A solution was reached by getting
a third party to re-write the OS and
using it. To the user both systems
are the same and his IBM clone will
run the vast majority of IBM PC
based software.

It is hard to imogine a third party
company writing a new version ot
the Mac or Atari ST operating sys-
tems.

Kick STart

Being the Arnigo's closes I cousin,
the Atari ST should be the easiest
computer to emulate. After all.
they both share the some 68000
processor. In fact it would be fair to
say that If you took away the
Amiga's custom chips, the hard-
ware architecture of the two
machines is almost identical, so It
shouldn't be too hard to get Atari
software running on an Amiga

When the Amiga first arrived,
there was talk of an ST emulator for

Feature

The hardware component of Medusa

lust £5. but that (not surprisingly)
never arrived. However, a German
company called Macro Systems
hove recently come up with the
goods in the shape of their
Medusa ST emulator.

The emulator package consists
of two disks (one of which ts in Atari
tormat) and a tiny PCB containing
little more than a couple of chips
and a capacitor. The card, which
slots Internally inside the A2000. Is
the smallest emulator cord I've
ever seen - if you're not careful, ft
would be all too easy to lose it
under a pile of disks: If realty is seri-
ously small.

Then again, the card itself isn't
that Important for Medusa claim
that the hard work of emulating
the Atari Is actually handled by The
Amiga itself - The card is used for
nothing more than I/O.

The card won't multi-task, and
this is really a great shame as it
would have been a perfect way of

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winding up all those ST-owning
friends you may have. Seriously
though. Macro Systems claim that
the next release (version 2) will be
fully mum-tasking, so It w# be possi-
ble to run ST and Amiga packages
concurrently.

in use. the Medusa card isn'T a
simple plug In and go affair. Before
you even get the slightest gSmpse
on anything even remofety ST-like.
you'll have to swallow your pride
and get your hands on o real ST.

On The Atari format disk that
came with the emulator & a rather
suspect little utility called
GETTOS.PRG. This program, which
must be run on a real Atari, dumps
the Atari rom to disk as a 200k
binary file and copies It on to the
Medusa boot disk.

In theory, this should allow
Medusa to emulate anything from
the very first ST machines (which
came with the operating system
TOS on disk) to Stacys and STEs

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boasting Rainbow TOS version 16.
Surprisingly, although you could run
Rainbow TOS. you can't get at any
of the extra facilities offered by the
STE. Why this should be I don't
know, as the Amiga hardware
could more than adeQuately
handle the task

Now all you have to do is dou-
ble click on the Medusa Icon and
things start to happen. From now
on, you've got a machine that is.
to all Intents and purposes, an Atari
ST. It can read and write disks in
ATarl format and. for hard disk
users, you can even set up a parti-
tion on your drive for Atari soft-
ware.

Unlike a real Atari, It's actually
possible to run all three Atari
screen modes from a standard
Amiga monitor {Atari owners need
two monltorsl). Both medium and
low resolution are virtually identical
to a real ST, but the ST high resolu-
tion mono mode does tend to sut-
ler from the usual eye-straining
qualities associated with interlaced
displays.

it would have been nice It the
emulator supported the non-
interlaced screen modes offered
by the new enhanced chip set. As
it s. you're either going to have to
buy yourself a flicker fixer, or cross
your fingers and hope that Macro
Systems fix this In version 2.

Due to restrictions In the ST's
memory management, it Is only
possible tor a real ST to access a
total of 4Mb of ram Atari botched
things by only allowing a 22 bit
address bus even though the
66000 can actually handle up to
16Mb using a 2A bit bus. This Is one
area where The emulator actually
Improves upon the real thing
Medusa can take full advantage
of the Amiga's entire memory
map. If you've got the memory,
you could have a "3Mb ST!

According to Medusa, the emu-
lator runs at about 90-95 percent
of the speed of a reot Atari, which
isn't bod (and is in fact a little
tmposstole) when you consider that
the Amiga normally runs 10 per
cent slower than an Atari

Surprisingly. Medusa seems to
run most application software with-
out a hitch Even ST MIDI software
(which is written to use the Atari's
built-in MIDI ports) works fine. The
emulation software re-directs all
MIDI activity to serial-based Amiga
MIDI interfaces, therefore allowing
you to run software such as
Cubase without a hitch,

If you need to run Atari applica-
tions software, then Medusa cer-
tainly delivers The goods. It happtty

Amiga Computing 33

runs programs such os Calamus,
Pro-24. Harlekln. GFA BASIC and
even me ST version of Protext.

However, that's not to say that
the Medusa system will run all Atari
software: It you're hoping to run
any of your friends ST games under
The emulator, then torget it. Due to
disk protection schemes and bla-
tant "metal bashing", the vast
majority of Atari games software
almost certainly won't wortt. This
isn't a handicap: Any gomes
which come out for the ST and not
the Amiga aren't worth playing!

There is only one problem with
Macro's emulator - and that's the
pnce. Coming m at £160, the emu-
lator certainly Isn't cheap. For that
kind of money, you could quite
easily pick up a real ST. However if
you can't afford the desk space
taken up by an additional
machine, then the Medusa ©muta-
tor provides a simple (and space
saving) solution.

Mac attack

I don't know what It is. but there's
something about the Macintosh
that makes It highly desirable. Take
your average computer buff.
Although he may not readily admit
It, there's a Mac lover in there
somewhere. He may wlbble on
endlessly about the merits of his
chosen computer, but It's a sure
bet that he would much rather be
sat In front of a Moc

So why haven't we 0*1 got Macs
sitting on our desktops next to our
Amigas 7 Well unfortunately. Apple
has the habit of pricing products
out of the reach ot the people that
most want them. An averagety
wen endowed Mac could set you
back almost £3000 - even then,
you have to fork out extra tor Things
like high resolution colour cards
This then, rs why A-Max a such a
good bet.

ReadySotTs A-Max Moc emula-
tor has been oround for a fa* old
time now UnfortunaTely. the origi-
nal release was rather limited - It
you wanted to play Mac Tetrls
(Which 6 about all I used it for) then
it was fine. But for serious DTP work,
rt ken a lot to be desired.

Everything seemed fine with A-
Max. but for one small detail - hard
disk support If you've ever used a
floppy disk-based Mac then you'll
already know how frustrating it can
be. The Amiga suffers enough with
the dreaded disk swapping syn-
drome, but with the Mac It s an
accepted foct of life. Mac users
complained of aching wrists after
prolonged periods ot use. hence
the term Macintosh Eroow.

34 Amiga Computing

Feature

Ev»n Itie St v»rtton of DPoint ion without pioblemii

Thankfully. ReadySoft have
cured this problem with the release
of A-Max II if you're the lucky
owner ot a hard disk, you can now
use It to store Mac programs and
data. Is A-Max now perfects

If you've bought the basic A-
Max II (not the Plus version) then
the first thing you'll notice Is that
the hardware itself hasn't changed
from the original A-Max. That same
long and rather obtrusive grey box
Is still as obtrusive as ever. It pro-
trudes out ot the back of the
machine a good 6 inches or so.
as if trying to compete with
Commodore' s TV modulator to see
which can get In the way the most

If you haven't had chonce to
play with A-Max. then It's worth
saying a few words about the car-
tridge itself. Contained within that
beautifully moulded case (which,
incidentally, has the signoiures of
the designers etched on the inside)

are two cNp holders. These holders
seat the two Mac roms that must
be Installed for A-Max to be able
to do its stuff .

Moc roms come In two flavours
- Wk and 126k. Roms from the Mac
II will not work - these are high
copoclty 256k Roms. If you can, go
for 128k Roms as this will allow your
A-Max II system to run a higher per-
centage of Moc software. After Ini-
tial problems obtaining these
Roms, El can now supply Them for
an odditional fee. Actually
installing the roms Is a simple
enough task which is completed in
a matter of minutes.

There's also a number of extra
connectors. The first Is a pass-
through connector which will allow
you to use your external drives
even when A-Max Is In use. If your
drive has a possthrough connector,
it's even possible to plug the A-
Max cartridge into that, therefore

The A-Max Plus Version

A-Max II is available in two differ-
ent configuration, the second of
which is yet to come. A-Max II Plus
s a totally new producf designed
specifically for The professional
user As well os the features sport-
ed by the current release A-Max
Plus offers a number ot additional
extras:

Internal Fitting

A-Mox II Plus Is a plug-In card
which connects Internally to the
Amiga 1500 upwards. At last It's
possible to fun Mac, PC and
Amiga software from a single, self-
contained system box.

Mac Format Disks

With Plus, It's now possible to
directly read and write to
Macintosh format disks from stan-
dard Amiga drives.

MIDI Compatibility

Run such well respected Mac
music software titles as Cubase.
Performer and Master Tracks Pro
on your Amiga (wfth standard MIDI
mterfoce connected to fhe serial
port).

Mac Serial Ports

Talking of serial ports. Plus provides
two Moc compatible senai ports,
therefore allowing It to take
odvantage of Mac serial devices
which conform to RS422 stan-
dards.

Appletalk Compatibility

Pius a fully compatible with Moc
Appletalk neTworks and peripher-
als. It is now possible to directly
connect the Amiga lo devices
such os Mac laser printers.

saving you the hassle of having to
fight through all the spaghetti
growing out of the back of your
machine every time you wish to
unplug A-Max.

For those of you who can afford
such a luxury it's also possible to
plug a Macintosh disk drive into
your Amiga via the A-Max car-
tridge. Although these are generoJ-
ty rather more expensive than their
Amiga counterparts, such a drive s
a worthwhile Investment If you
Intend using A-Max seriously A
good drive to go for is the Amiga-
A-Tosh drive which o available from
MAST on 077082 212.

It's just not fair. If. like me, you
like to drve in and start playing as
soon as you get a new piece of
Wt, then you're m for a big disap-
pointment; Before A-Max II can do
Its stuff, there's a fair brt of setting
up to be carried out.

The first thing to do b to find a
Mac and copy the Mac System
and Finder flies onto a special minl-
tronsfer disk. This A-Max II specific
disk can be read by both the Mac
and by A-Max. Unfortunately. It's
rather limited In size - a mere 272kl
If you're using a Mac that has a
targe number of fonts and desk
accessories installed, you'll proba-
bly have to remove a large num-
ber of them before both Finder
and System will fit onto the mini-
transfer disk. Don't worry - as soon
as you've got A-Max up and run-
ning, you can re-Install your
favourite fonts and D/As.

To get anything even remotely
Mac-like to appear, you need only
the System and Finder files men-
tioned previously. These two files
contain the Mac operating system
and desktop environment. As soon
as these are safely copied, your
MacAmiga should spring to life.
The next step is to format a disk
from A-Mox and copy the two
Mac OS files on to that so that you
can use The transfer disk ogoln.

If you've got a Mac external
drive, then bringing Mac software
ocross Into A-Max II is a doddle -
just plug the drive In. boot up A-
Max and copy the programs
straight oft the Mac disks onto A-
Max disks.

On a standard Amiga. A-Max
can operate m both medium and
high resolution screen modes
(atthough the latter suffers terribly
from the problems of interlacing).
A-Max 11 can also take advantage
of both the Enhanced Chip Set
and big screen monitors such as
the Moniterm and A2024 (what
ever happened to that?).
However, for those ot us with nor-

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im

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Hard Drive Systems and Ram Cards
A590 Adaptor Kit tAI5(H)) £ qo^qq

A590 20 meg drive OK Ram £2W.(H)
A5 ( )0 with 2 Meg ram 099.00
ST5(»6 Hard Drive 44Mh (A 15(H)) t4W.tH)
ST506 Hard Drive 66Mb (A 1500) £549.(H)
Spirit Inmate SCSI Controller + X Mb Ram Board
Un-populated + optional 6XXXI £ 100.00

Spirit SIN5(H> 2 Meg Populated £199.00
Spirit 5 1 2K Ram card inc. Clock £ 4 1 ).s>5

Spirit Fat Trapper 4 Meg Card un-populated £ 99,00
Floppy Disk drives 3.5 inch £ 70.05

!! Ring tor prices of the latest systems !!

Ram Chip Prices
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bm B2000 Ram card. 2 Meg £1 12.00

500 V3000 4 Meg of I Mb \ 4 £299.00

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mol Amigas. you'll proOablv prefer
to tun A-Max In medium resolution
(do your eyes a favour!).

A-Max now supports Mac digi-
tised sounds. These range from the
simple SysBeep tone to complex
Mac samples. Most samples play
OK. bur problems do arise that can
often resu" m the dreoded System
Error requestor (the Mac version of
the Amiga GURU) popping up
onscreen.

Mac digitised sound con be a
lot of fun Using a control panel util-
ity called Sound Master, it's actual-
ly possible to assign samples to
different aspects of Mac opera-
tion. For example, your Mac can
be set up to play a sample when a
disk Is elected, another when a
disk Is Inserted, another when you
make a mistake etc.

Probably the most major new
feature offered by A-Max II Is the
ability to use hard drives during
Mac emulation. A-Max II allows
you to access hard drives in two
different ways, if you're the owner
of a hard drive that offers a SCSI
connector (such as the A590), you
can access stand alone Mac-for-
matted drives by connecting them
dlrectty to your Amiga via SCSI (the
Small Computer Systems Interface:
a standard for data and control
hnes which actually works) This has
the advantage of allowing you to
access data on a drive set up for
use on the Mac.

SCSI support also extends to
allow Mac SCSI peripherals to be
used directly from within A- Max.
These include such wondrous
devices OS loser printers, scanners,
optical drives and so on.

Seconcty. A-Max II will let you sei
up o Macintosh format petition on
your Amiga drive. A-Max uses cus-
tom controller card drivers that are
written specifically for particular
makes of controller. Although not
oil cards are supported in the cur-
rent release. PeadySoft claim that
all Amiga hard drive manufactur-
ers hove been contacted and
asked to produce drivers for thetr
drives. The current release supports
o number of controller cards
including the Commodore 2OT0A,
2091, A590 and even the GVP
range of controllers.

You can access up to eight A-
Max compatible partitions spreod
across several hard drives, as long
as an the drives are connected to "
the same controller Although the
Amiga can use any number of
controller cards. A-Max II is some-
what less flexible. It's also worth
mentioning that if you do Intend
creating an A-Max partition on

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your hard drive, this will require you
to reformat the entire drive.

Using a hard drive with o Mac is
more than just a luxury - It can
often be a necessity For example,
the latest release of the Mac s pre-
mier DTP system, Quark XPress,
barely fits on a high density disk, let
alone a standard 600k Mac disk.
Amounting to almost 1.4 Mb of
data, it's almost impossible to use
XPress without a hatd disk. Even
users of real Macs can't reoly use
XPress unless they're lucky enough
to own a Mac equipped with a
high density drive (Mac SE/30
upwards). Even then. XPress has a
habit of producing files that often
amount to megabytes m size...

Lastly we come to the all-Impor-
tant subject of software compati-

bility. Thankfully. A-Max certainly
doesn't seem to be let down in this
department. Just about any Mac
software that uses the Mac operat-
ing system should work fine under
A-Max - I was able to run a large
number of different programs
including such weB known titles as
Quark XPress, PageMaker 4.
MacWrite. MacPaint and even a
number of Mac games such as
Crystal Quest. MacPlayMafe
(ahem) and Tetris (ylppiel), Just
don't expect more hardware
dependant programs (such as
MIDI sequencers) to run properly.

On a standard Amiga, emula-
tion runs at about the same speed
(if not slightly quicker) as a Mac
Plus computer. If you're lucky
enough to have a processor

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accelerator. A-Max will even take
full advantage of this, allowing
emulation to be speeded up by as
much five times that of a real Mac.

With the release of A-Max ver-
sion 2, ReadySoft have answered
all the criticisms levelled at the
original. Now that it fully supports
Amiga hard drives. A-Max has risen
from the lowly ranks of being noth-
ing more than a curiosity to
become a truly useful tool. With A-
Max connected to your Amiga. It's
finally possible to run quality Mac
software without having to pay the
kind of extortionate prices that
Macs command.

PCs in our time

On the face of it, it should be
Impossible. Even Commodore
were sceptical. OK, so emulating a
PC in software is no problem -
after all. the much-maligned pack-
age "Transformer" has been doing
It (alberr badly) for years. Equally,
emulating a PC In hardware has
also been done, with the likes of
the Brldgeboard systems for the
A2000.

But emulating a PC using a A500
ram expansion and some extra
chips? Impossible. Vet somehow it
works. By slotting a card the size of
a ram expansion into your Amiga
500. it suddenly becomes a PC.

To be honest. I didn't believe It
possible. Even though I d seen it
demonstrated at the 16 Bit Show. I
would only really believe It if I
could do ft myself.

So I did it. And It worked. My
multitasking. 68000 based, WIMP
environment Amiga had been
"upgraded* to be a PC compati-
ble. Amazing. InstaBatlon took less
than on hour Although packaging
for the latest gizmo usually says "fit-
ted In moments" . to be honest I
usually spend over an hour piug-
glng-ln. testing and getting soft-
ware organised

This time all I had to do was
duplicate some disks, plug in the
card and re-boot. My Amiga was
a PC.

As I normally make It a rule not
To use a PC. I oWn't have much in
The way of suitable software. So I
walked oil the way across the
office ond asked Ihe editor of the
magazine, PC Today

-Here', he shouted, "try this."

And he gave me some diagnos-
tic software.

"I'M be very surprised if it works!"
he yelled (this Is not unusual) It
worked.

All the tests with the exception
of the DMA Tests (which were irrele-
vant) were possed with tiylng

Amiga Computing 37

colours. Even keyboard mapping,
which had me worried, was no
problem. Just as a matter of inter-
est. It turns out that using function
keys greater than F10 actually
works, so don't fear commands
that say "PressF12to continue".

The software also provided a
useful benchmarking system which
I promptly tried on the other office
PCs. I'll tell you what they came
out like later. Don't want to spoil
the surprise

Once the board is fitted, you
have a choice of two possible
computers under your creamy
beige plastic keyboard.

The first (and more technically
advanced) Is your Amiga,
although now It has one or two
extras. For starters, you have an
extra half meg of memory just tike
an A501 ram expansion. Vou also
have a battery -booked real time
clock. Just like the official A501
memory expansion and the unoffi-
cial ones which cost a tenner
extra.

As an extra bonus, you even get
an additional 512k ram disk,
although I have to admit I had
problems getting this to work. KCS
say that If you have an A590 or any
other hard drive which uses DMA
(Direct Memory Access - a way of
speeding up drives by allowing
them to read/write directly to/from
memory independently of the
main CPU) men don't bother try-
ing, as version 1 of the system soft-
ware doesn't like it.

As far as the Amiga side ot
things go. that's about It. Once the
ram disk problems are sorted out.
you'll have everything you could
want from something plugged Into
your trapdoor and a trttte bit extra
besides.

If you want to defect and use
your Amiga as a PC. you have to
perform the following steps.

Step I ! Remove any hard disks
you may hove attached and
throw them away You won't need
them for a bit

Step 2 Boot from floppy disk "A"

Step 3: Load MSDOS vd from
floppy disk *B"

And that's it. If this seems a bit
complicated for you. there is a
complete, totally user-friendly front
end program to help you config-
ure your new PC to get the most
from it in the way of graphics
modes, serial ports, external disk
drives and mouse Interfaces If a
particular PC package you are

38 Amiga Computing

Microw^l Wo(kt do«s - wotki that li

using has some strange screen
cotours. you can hft the "help" key
at any time and redesign them.

It's been some time since I used
PC software, and things have cer-
tainly changed. Vou would be
amazed at the lengths PC pro-
grammers go have to go to to
ensure "use* friendliness"

Most modem programs use pull
down menus, hot keys and drop
shadow windows. It oil looks very
out of ploce on something which
to me has always said "boring*

There would be little point in me
telling you how high the standard
of emulation is. If I were to say It wW
work on all PC programs, someone
somewhere would buy It to run a
particular program and if would
fall down.

Ail I will say ts that I tested a fair
number of programs. Including
games, word processors, databas-
es and spreadsheets. They all
worked fine. The only drawback
was the need fo use floppy disks all
the time. KCS say that If you have
a particular program In mind,
check with them first to see If it
runs. Seems fair to me.

The speed of the KCS Power
board is not particularly stunning. In
fact, according to the well-
respected benchmarking pro-
grams I ran. It even runs slower
than an Amstrad PPC. It was com-
pletely blown away by a 80286
based PC.

Why buy an ST emulator?

I know what you're asking your-
selves. What's the point In emulat-
ing an Atari anyway? Surety there's
not a great deal that an Atari
could do that the Amiga couldn't
do better? After all, isn't that the
reason why you bought an Amiga
in the first place? We*, to a greater
extent, you'd be right; the Amiga
does have a habit of doing things
just that bit better than all Ihe test

There are exceptions to this -
and It's MIDI software. Although
the Amiga is finally starting to get
Its fair share of decent MIDI soft-
ware (Pro-24. Master Tracks Pro
and MuslcX are fine examples), the
standard of ST MIDI software stonds
miles above the rest - even Mac
and PC MIDI software can't touch
It.

Pro-2d may have just arrived on
the Amiga, but It's posltlvelv prehis-
toric on the Atari Steinberg have
since upgraded it to a consider-
ably better program called
Cubase, which is alreody in its sec-
ond revision Then there's the C-
Lab range ot software. Virtuoso
and Realtime.

Why buy a Mac emulator?

The obvious reason is io get a Mac
on the cheap

Apple computers are, shall we
say. a bit on the costty side. Even
buying on Amiga and emulator
from scratch wilt save you money
Of course, if you already own an
Amiga you'll have to splash out
even less.

The Mac is the favourite
machine when It comes to
Desktop Publishing. Rightly of
wrongly, talk to someone about
DTP and you'll always end up talk-
ing about Macintosh computers.

Although the Amiga now sup-
ports wonderful packages like
Professional Page 2 which In many
aspects can out-perform the Mac
standards, there is still a lot to be
saKJ for emulating one

For example, In a situation
where Macs have already been
installed, it would be financial
madness to chuck them all away
and start again with Amlgas.
However, when it comes to
expanding the system, an A2000
with A-max 2 Plus coutd be
plugged into the network like any
other Mac with a considerable
saving. Plus you have all the bene-
fits of the grophlcaPy and sonicoiy
superior machine, as standard.

Why buy a PC emulator?

The PC has never been renown for
excelling in a specialised field.
Graphics, sound, DTP and MIDI are
all better left to other machines.

Nevertheless, the PC has been
around for a long time; Almost
since the very beginning It
appears. As o result. It has earned
itself a remarkable collection of

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software. Forget up-to-the-minute
animation packages, we're talking
productivity here

Word processors, spreadsheets,
databases: The PC has a greater
choice In these fields than any
other machine In existence.

What's more, most of the PC
software around Is free it's public
domain There is still more PC PD
than Amiga PD. and you know
how much Amiga PD there Is out
therel

Another reason to Invest m a PC
compatible Is that old diched situ-
ation the "PC at work, home com-
puter at home'. If you really need
to take work home from the office
PC and continue at It home on the
family Amiga, here's the solution.

The final scenario is one which
appears In our mailbag several
times a week. A lot of colleges and
universities use PCs as course
machines. The poor students are
forced" to learn programming lan-
guages and how to use spread-
sheets on the out-of-date campus
equipment.

Most students find that they
need to use the machines out of
normal daytime hours but also find
that due to lack of funds their num-
bers are limited and competition
for access Is fierce. Adopting the
ever present Amiga could be the
ideal solution.

Mac, 5T emulators
J 01 on Holborn
PC t mulator:
John Ktnntdy

A useful help utility is included

the board wilt boot fiom PC llopptes

Tech Spec

Medusa ST Emulator

SupplW:

Medusa Macro Systems 0 1 0 49 2330 80 1 T 32
Emulates:

Atari ST - several TOS versions

fcict:

£180

Software supplied:

Ut*ty and "rom grabbing" software
Amiga required:

A2000up. A500 A 1 000 versions "coming soon-
Floppy disk support:
ves. using standard Amiga drive
Hard disk support:

Yes

Multitasking:

No - 'coming soon"
Compatibility:

A-max 2

Supplier:

Readysoft /Entertainment international
Emulates;

Apple Mackintosh
Price:

around £250 (including roms)
Software supplied:
Set-up utilities
Amiga required:

A500. A2000 Plus version ■coming soon -
Floppy disk support:
Needs Moc drive

Plus version wfl use standard Amiga drive
Hard disk support

Ves

Multitasking:

No

Compatibility:

Good

KCS Power Board for A500

Supplier

BttCon Devices, 091 4901919
Emulates

PC (CGA and Hecules graphics modes)

Price:

£320

Software supplied:

MSDOS vd. SheB. Utilities
Floppy disk support:

Using Amiga drive and supports 5 25 men sys-
tems as wen
Hard disk support:
No - 'coming soon"
Multitasking:
No

Compatibility:

Good

Special:

Acts os memory expansion with clock when
running AmlgaDOS. Extra RAM disk possible

Amiga Computing 39

Five years to the month after Protest version 1 was
launched Arnor are pleased to present version 5, an enormous leap
forward in both ease of use and performance.

Protext 5.0 introduces a completely integrated system of pull down menus
and dialogue boxes. The menus are among the many operations that may now
be carried out with either the mouse or the keyboard- Protext really does give
you the best of both worlds.

Protext 5.0 handles printer fonts flexibly and accurately. You can make full use
of any number of proportional printer fonts, mix them freely within ony line,
centre them in headers, use automatically formatted footnotes. And Protext
correctly formats your text as you type it no matter how many font changes
you use, showing you line and page breaks exactly as they will be printed.

Protext 5.0 is still the fastest word processor around. Even though we have
made all these major improvements we have taken great care to ensure thai
text editing is as fast as ever. The menus work smoothly and quickly even
with high resolution displays. But of course, you can use Protext's efficient set
of commands and keys just as before and 5.0 remains compatible with all
earlier versions from 1.0 onwards.

Protext 5.0 is a worthy successor to version 4, which was described as "the
best word processor at any price", "the best text processor on the Amiga"
and "the most powerful word processor on the Atari ST" (AUI, ST/Amiga
Format, ST User).

Protext 5.0 heralds a new era of multi-lingual European software, in time for
1992 and the opening up of Eastern Europe. Protext may be used in at least
27 different languages and has 10
different national keyboard layouts
built in (plus the capability to define
your own symbols and
keyboard layouts).

The Features

New fast & easy to use poll down
menu system with dialogue boxes and
alerts; file selector; mouse dragging to set
blocks. Menus complement existing
commands and keyboard shortcuts, do
not replace them. Menus may be used
with mouse or keyboard. Amiga version
follows Intuition guidelines.

A Enhanced printing capabilities supports multiple proportional fonts; mixing of
different font sizes on (he same line; proportional formatting whilst editing; side
margin, headers and footers independent of main text font. labs, decimal tabs and
centre labs. Extensive range of printer drivers supplied.

.V Multiple file editing - up lo 36 files may be open; split screen editing.

,Y Graphics mode support on PC allows use in virtually ony text or graphics mode
including 132 column or 75 line VGA modes; user defined characters and on-screen
bold, italics and underlining now on all versions; use of 1 3 different accents on ony
character.

ft Language support includes Albanian, Basque, Czech, Danish, Dulch, English,
Esperanto, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latin,
Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serbocroalian, Slovak, Spanish,
Slovene, Swedish, Welsh. (Note: some printers do not support all languages}.

ft Index and contents generation. Indexer takes marked words or phrases; contents
entries automatically token from lilies wrapped in control codes; many options for style
of contents output.

-V Spelling checker features completely new 1 1 0,000* word Collins dictionary with very
fost phonetic lookup. Anagrams and find word pattern. Foreign language dictionaries
(German, Swedish available now, others to follow).

ft Many other enhancements including multi line footnotes and endnotes; automatic
timed save; odd column or row of figures; indent tabs; find word ol cursor; 40 column
mode support; sentence operations; inter- parogroph space; much improved expression
evoluator; self incrementing variables; Roman numerals; newspaper-style column
printing; file sorting utility with special options for names and addresses; revised manual
plus new tutorial guide

ft And don't forget Pretext still includes background printing; box manipulation;
macro recording; exec files; headers and foolers; find and replace; moil merging;
undelete; file conversion utility; configuration program; auto reformatting; on screen
help; time and date; typewriter mode; line drawing; disc utilities.

Protext 5.0 may be purchased from ony good computer shop or directly from Ainor. Upgrades from earlier versions
ore only available horn Amor and the original discs should be returned with your order.

Protext 5.0
Upgrade from v4.2
from earlier versions
Protext 4.2
Prodoto 1.1

PC

£149.95

£60

£75

£99.95

£79.95

Amiga

£149.95
£60
£75
£99.95
£79 95

ST/TT

£149.95

£60

£75

£99.95

£79.95

Archimedes

£149.95
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Protext 5.0 requires at least 640K ol memory on oil machines
Protext 4.2 requires at least 51 2K of memory on all machines
Prodola requires 1MB of memory on the Amiga

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Hi Density Driving

Wfien the Amiga was
aunched way back in
1985. one or Its revolu-
tionary features was Its double
sided 880k 3 Sinch disk drive. At
that time, everyone In the IBM
world was still using 5.25in disks,
and the Apple Mac and Atari SI
had single sided 3.5ln drives as
standard

Even when the ST and Mac got
external double sided disk drives,
they could only manage 720k and
800k on a disk respectively.

However the Amiga's has since
been overtaken by newer
machines from IBM and Apple. IBM
released their PS/2 range using hl-
denslty 1.44Mb disk drives, and
Apple soon followed with high
density drives In their top-of-the-
longe Mac li s. Even the lowly Atari
ST has now got external high densi-
ty drives

Now, Applied Engineering from
the States have released a drive
that brings the Amiga back Into
the toad.

Their AEHD external disk drive
can format disks to 1.52Mb. beat-
ing both IBM and Apple.

The drive comes in a very nicely
produced external case, and the
first thing that strikes you is that It
looks like an external Macintosh
drive

This is no surprise, as Applied
Engineering make external drtves
'or the Macintosh as well.

The AEHD drive con also be
used as a straight-forward 880k
external drive, and has some quite
neat features. It uses the same
Sony dfak mechanism that is found
in the Apple Macs. This has auto-
matic disk ejection

Auto Eject

On the Mac. if you drog a disk Into
the wastebasket It will eject 'he
disk for you. The Amiga's operating
system doesn't (yet) support this
(come on CBM, roll on Workbench
3.0). but there Is a small button on
the front of the disk drive that will
eject a disk This may seem to

Why do we still have to put up with

880k of disk space in the 90's?
We don't, as Jolyon Ralph shows us
with some hi-tech equipment fresh in
from the U.S.

ih« block anong»m»nl of a ttandaid floppy

defeat the whole object of auto-
matic disk ejection, but it allows
the drive to only eject disks when It
Is safe (when the disk drive is not
reading or writing).

One nice teature of this is if you
do a disk to disk copy and press
the eject button. It will wait until the
disk has copied and then elect the
disk.

Not ready that useful, but It's a
great way to show off and it's a
much better way of attracting your
attention than the customary
beep or the rather annoying
screen- flash

Another nice touch is the dual
colour LED. This Is yellow when the
drive Is reading, and red when the
drive ts writing - an easy way to te*

If something nasty is trying to write
to your disks without warning you

Double Device

When plugged in, the drive
behoves Just as If It was a fancy
880k drive. To get It to use high
density disks there Is a special driv-
er file that patches the Amiga's
Trackdisk. device. It makes the drive
behove as ir It were two drives.
DF1: for 880k disks and DF5: for
1.52Mb disks.

Only four lines need fo be
added to your startup sequence
file 'or the changes to be made
permanent.

Once the changes have been
made and the machine re-boot-
ed, any high density disk will come

up as df5: and a low density disk
wibedf2:

The drive detects whether a ctek
Is high density or standard double
density by checking for the special
hole on the left side of high density
disks. While » is possible to dril holes
In the normal 1 Mb disks, the coat-
ings on the deks are different, and
disks converted this way are not
reliable.

The drive works fine with all the
hard disk backup programs I tried ft
with, but I could not persuade
either dos-2-dos. Crossdos or the
public domain MessyDOS to read
1.44Mb IBM disks on It however
much I fiddled with mounttists and
other such things

This is not a fault of the drive, as
the software was written long
before It became available. It
should also be possible to read
Apple disks on this drive, with the
right software.

The Meg War

Now the Amiga is ahead ogoln,
however, it wil not hold the lead In
floppy storage for long. The recent-
ly-announced PS/2 Model 90 from
IBM will have a 2.88Mb floppy
drtai

Citizen have announced a
20Mb floppy drive with SCSI Inter-
face will be available soon. Up to 7
of these could be linked to an
A590-equiped Amiga.

With the current exchange rate,
the drive works out quite cheap.
It's excellent 'or showing off. and
the high density disks are a vast
improvement for hard disk back-
ups

A great piece of hardware,
excellently made, a good price,
and works well.

When It can read high density
IBM disks and Apple dfcks it will be
perfect.

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PARADROID 47,
BADLANDS 48, NECRONOM 51
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LOOM 61 , THE SPY WHO LOVED ME 62

BEAST II 64,

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PIRACY
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WAV bock in me mots of rime, so lor
ago that even me so coiled good
old days of home computing were
bu' a distant memory, and so long
ogo thai even thfe hollowed organ
was but a twinkling m me eye o' The
powers that be... Er where was I?

Oh yes, It was 1985 In fact, and It
was just about the last year It was
worth owning a Commodore 64
because Andrew Braybrook's
Graftgold released Porodroid. and
followed it up The next year with
the wonderful Uricfcum.

Surprisingly our Andy has
rehashed his original game to give
us Porodroid 90. What next. Urldium
91?

The reason Paradroid was a
resounding success was that It was
a jolty good 8-b» game However,
expectations, game design and
the standard of software has
advanced since then (though it
might not seem like It at times). So
does the old dog still have a few
tricks lefl or is Paradroid 90 only a
series o' toothless woofs ?

To find out you first hove to
digest the plot. Easy enough. Out
there in space Is a place called
Bosmyth. The neighbouring Trimorg
Empire wonts to annex It Irao) style.
Our forces send out o Meet of
freighters to counter the threat.
From out of nowhere comes a Flash
Gordon Death Ray which turns ail
the drolds onpoard Into metallic
communists.

They round up all the capitalist,
land owning, fascist pig. police
state, running dog lackies.
otherwise known as the human
crew, and put mem up against a
wall You are also a droid, which
mokes the whole exercise one of
droioiclde.

To facilitate the droidlclde you
ore armed with a feeble laser, a
small energy supply, and poor
armour. Vou only get one life, and
the droids on me ships are bigger,
faster and meaner than a
rattlesnake In your codpiece.
Viewpoint is top down, with fairly

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anaemic ship graphics and drolds.
The screen scrolls up and down If
you progress in those directions,
which is in tact, fewer directions
than on me Commodore 64.

You can access desk consoles
and call up data on the function of
the deck you are on (they are
linked by lifts), the number and type
of drold inhabiting it. and
correspondingly, hints on the best

way to proceed

Now you can run around and lust
blasl every card carrying can vou
see. which Is fine. You might Just
make it off this deck In one piece
But you won't get any further I
assure you.

The crux of the game is in (act a
sub-game. Vou have the ability to
lock onto another drold and play
out a transference game for
possession of its metallic hide. This
involves shooling pulses o' energy
at a central bar. and hoping that
when me Hmer runs out you have
more receptors In your colour than
the opponent. The trouble is that
you only get a limited number o'
shots, and the bigger the
opposition, the more shots they
have.

There are numerous fiddly bits
which gives you unchangeable
receptors, two shots for me price of
one etc.. and you can swop sides
before you start, so a small dollop of
strategy and tactics comes Into
P*oy.

Indeed, unless you tackle some
of the drolds on Ihe lower decks in
a certain order, transferring os you
go. men you won't be able to finish
the game, it'll take you a long time
to get thai far though.

Paradroid 90 is tough work make

no mistake. It s also incredibly
Irritating to lose your very first
transference game and thus get
blown to bits and have to go back
Through me title page and credits.

Paradroid 90 is a fair game,
enjoyable of times, frustrating at
others, but It does show Its age. Rol
on Undium 91 is what I say.

Graphics

Graphically Paradroid 90 li
unimpressive, bul this Is partly due
to the game design- If II had been
rendered In 3-D with eiaclly the
same objectives it would have
looked far better, but then It might
not have played the same

Sound

Suitably weird effects which hare
undergone much the same sort of
update as the graphics.

Gameplay

Slightly tougher than the original and
unbearably frustrating at times.
Considering that this Is an update (or
16-blt owners I don't really think
dogged adherence to an 8-blt
design from rive years ago was that
Important.

Amiga Computing 47

I DON'T wear these sunglasses just
to look cool, yo' know I don't wea'
them (List to make me look like Tom
Cruz - no way man. Although I
hove to admll there is a likeness.
Especially when I have my crash
helmet on and no one can see my
face. I mean, it I was a bit shorter
and a bit more handsome and
spoke with on American occent no
one could tell us apart, if I had my
sunglasses on and my helmet

Anyway, the real reason I wear
my glasses is lo protect my eyes,
man. You gotta be careful these
days, ever since the Disaster. The
Nuclear Disaster that Is. The Big
One. The Numero Uno. Le Grand
Fromoge. The El Supremo Disaster.
The Disaster which made ail the
other disasters begin with small let-
ters. Man. It was wicked.

But, hey, life goes on. doesn't It?
OK. so things are a bit harder these
days. Back before n happened,
you coukj sprint round a track with
nothing but the occasionol ollslick
to worry about. Pick up a few span-
ners and you were away: Turbo
boosters, extra-sticky tyres, power
assist steering - you know the drill.
Good ctean healthy fun.

Man, that was history These days
no one goes nowhere without a full
set of armour plating. Vou better
believe It - Just watching a roce is
now an offical health nazard. Each
set of wheels comes with a
machine gun as standard, 'cos If
someone is m your way you don't
spend time thinking about tactics.
Vou Just convert his car into a Nigel
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Course, you still got all those
Turbos and whatnots, but this time
vou also got rockets to buy No one
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The circuits have changed too
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the real world: Knackered cities,
scrap yards, chemical factories,
Interactive carparks - In other

BADLANDS

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words the worst, man. the worst.

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Sure, take a dislike to o certoin
chemical storage drum and

Kerstunchi it s gone. Oops, did I
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And when you raced all eight,
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Better than average tunci, -one
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Value

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Ho™ many different way* ere there to
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ferent momtert but once you've
icen one tet of bug-eyed thlngi
you've really, a\ tbey tay, teen mem
all. There It a wonderful built-in edi-
tor though.

Sound

Nothing particularly mind-warping
in thlt department I'm afraid.

Gameplay

BILLV was a bait, a nice little, red
bouncy ball. Bobby was Billy's
cousin, ana every day they played
together in the sunshine, bouncing
the way and that between the chil-
dren and loving every minute of ft.
One day, tney were playing as
usual when a big man threw Billy
and Bobby at a wait and knocked
them oui cold.

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knew was that they had been
grabbed by a man from
Audiogenic and had been
squeezed Into a computer. Now
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bounce around a screen all day

They'd much rather be playing with
the children but instead they are
the main characters in Heiter
Skelter

This rs strange name for this game
as there's not one heiter skelter In It,
Anyway, you might be wondering
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computer cos you don't have to
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Billy and Bobby have been
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eyed monsters, if you tire of the B0
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Can you bring the bouncing ball
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editor. Each level consists of a num-
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lealiy aren't doing any harm but
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anyway

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to bounce on these poor defence-
less creatures who do nothing to
harm the environment and really
look quite pretty, except for the
ones that are really ugly and
deserve lo be thoroughly thumped.

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going to take a lot of practice.

Bouncing on these creatures caus-
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get the one that's selected by the
computer.

If you get one that's not due to
be squashed then you simply
squeeze It Into two monsters and
add to your work load.

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one of these smaller monsters, its
partner increases in size This means
I hat tf you hit him again before his
turn he will divide into two again.

Heiter Skelter is a really fun
game it's damned addictive and
Is certainly something to sink your
teeth into

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Don't think that this ship is an easy target, as it s armed to the teeth

The more ships you shoot, the more credits you get to spend

You haven't got many friends In this system, so keep your eyes open

xiPHOS: What ts rr. where Is if. and tf
you find if. what do you do with It?
the answer to all these questions
and more will be revealed thanks
to the coldest killer m the unfveree.
the Han Solo of Adllngton. yes
you've guessed it - me.

The game is based on the
continuing struggle between two
warring factions In deep space
(The Plo and the Qon). both of
which are descendants from the
some race which In the distant
past was silly enough to delegate
total responsibility of running their
near perfect world, to fhelr
ultimate creation Xiphos (booo.
htssss)

Xlphos Is d somehow familiarly
mod entity, and would be vHlon of
the piece A huge super
Intelligence, which for reasons best
known to itself, after hundreds of
years of trouble free service, one
morning announced *i quit'

Thereby plunging the now totally
dependent Xiphonions into o
technological dark age, with no
power and no expertise to rebuild
their crumbling culture.

Vou play the part of an
undercover agent sent by the
Galactic council, of which the
Xlphonion system was formerly a
member Your mission is to traverse
the six levels of Xlphonion Inner

XIPHOS

Publisher: Electronic Zoo
Price: £24.99

r

Graphics

space, at the centre of which Is
Xiphos, not only responsible for the
demise of the Xlphons bul also
suspected of causing strange
disappearances and possibly
altering the tabric of space time.

In order to travel through the
increasingly hostile levels you take
on the guise of a wandering
mercenary fighting for either side,
allied only to maximum profit.

This has a dual purpose, not onry
disguise, but as the onry method of
raising sufficient funds via bounty,
to buy supplies to continue your
guest south, and towards Xiphos
via the pole bose at the southern
end of each level.

Unfortunately travelling south
increases an effect similar to gravity
which dramatically depletes your
energy. If, however, you travel

north energy Is increased, but it otto
means you'll be travelling In
completely the wrong
dlrection.(Tricky . . .eh?)

Here lies the trading aspect ot
the game. After firstly picking your
target carefully and dispatching
them to the next level of
consciousness you will receive your
reword, with which you can trade
for goods with your victims
opponents.

A map can be built up ot the
various locations of stations and
their allegiances, although this can
change due to conquest The
conservation of resources is
essential, as running out of energy
was the main reason for my regular
and earty demise

It's perhaps slightly unfair to
compare Xiphos with Stargllder II

When I rinl loaded the game and
flicked through the manudl. my first
thought wat, 'Great/... At /ait,
Sttrglldcr III or there aboutf.
Untoriunattly than not the caic.
The graphic* an rery similar, the
background* being very Impressive
and, with the possible exception of
the factor beam which looks like It
was stolen from a speccy, they're
great.

Sound

The fairly usual run-of-the-mill pings
and eiploilons. A few years ago they
would have been great but they all
seem a little too famlllai now.

Gameplay

The dog fights arc perhaps a little
too Ulcky, making the accumulation
of the required credits and at a
result, the purchase of essentials,
simply a little too hard.

constantly, but It's almost
unavoidable with the graphic
similarity and the general scenario.
Nevertheless I still feel the program
lacks depth, being essentially a
multHevel shoot-em-up. with a bit
of simple trading for good measure.

Amiga Computing 57

This Is the only time you ore sate
(well, relatively anyway). Fuel
up, arm your plane and get
at'eml

WHEN I was younger and thought
that my Tandon PC was a really
nice state of the art piece ot gear I
had one game that was my most
tavourite of ail Many of the more
sentient of you will never have
heard ot this game - In tact many
of you may not have heard of PCs.

Anyway, the name of this game
was Sopwith. and the plot was
quite simple. Piloting your plane
from an elevation viewpoint <slde
on) you had to engage In
dogfights with enemy craft and
drop bombs on cities and gun
emplacements until everyone had
hod enough.

WINGS OF FURY

Publisher: Domark Price: £24.99

This was by far the best game I
ever played on the PC and
probably the game I have played
the most on any machine. And this
was on a nosty monochrome
monitor running o CGA simulator
How much better, I remember
thinking to myself, ttus gome would
be If It had graphics and sound

Somewhere else across the
universe of thought someone must
have had a similar, It not the same.
Idea - here comes Wings of Fury!

The plotllne has been developed
somewhat. You are the pilot of a
Hellcat, operating from an
American carrier in the Specific
Ocean around 1945.

This is an unpleasant place to be
because the place Is swarming
with Japanese. That's not to say
that the Japanese aren't nice
people these days. I mean, in WWII
they murdered and tortured
civilians, summorarlly executing
those who stood in their way These
days an they do is torture and
murder business with high import
taxes and murder, torture and eat
endagered species - no
comparison really.

The aim Is to eradicate the
enemy by destroying their Island
bases and sinking their ships. Air

combat may ensue, sneaky Zeros
(which were manufactured by
Mitsubishi as a matter of Interest)
defend some islands and most
ships.

A choice of weapons - bombs,
rockets or a torpedo - will outfit you
for your mission. It may be
necessary to fly a sortie and Ihen
return to your carrier In order to re-
arm with different weapons. Bombs
are the most universally useful,
especially when attacking ground

Installations. Rockets seem to be
rather haphazard and innaccurate
whereas torpedos are incredibly
unreliable and obviously only useful
lor sinking ships. Remember you
have machine guns for dogfights
and those all importanl straffing
runs.

Landing back on the carrier Is
quite difficult. The problem can be
compounded it your plane has
received a bit of a pasting from the
Nips Ack-Ack or the odd Zero. One
slip, one fatal slip and ifs goodnight
Singapore.

The variety of missions and the
Inherent strategy requirements tor
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different and challenging. I know I
said that Sopwith was my most
played game ever, but I have a
feeling that may soon change.

Graphics

Excellent. They really are. The
animation of the plane at 11 climbs
and dives li more than made up lor
by Ihc excellent effect* at enemy
toldlers aic pinned to the giound by
a well timed bunt or cannon. A
triumph of the pixel iculptoe'i art,

Sound

The sound erfcett may seem a bit
tame.. The tunc li quite stirring but
uses the lime boring old sample*
that have been around for yean. The
beat effect Is, If you'll cicuic the
S«c, the iqueal of an Infantryman ai
he seti shot o* a 1001b bomb landi
In his vicinity.

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This Is a game that attacks the central
nervous system directly. It owerldes
all other considerations except
massive doses of coffee to enable you
to word nlne>to>flve and play six-to-
eight. The control of the plane I* a
Utile difficult to get the hang of at
first, but the Hellcat was a difficult
plane to fly in reality anyway.

58 Amiga Computing

NIGHTBREED

THE IHIERAtUVE MOVIE

Publisher: Ocean Price: £24.99

Graphics

While searching around Ihe cemetery you ore bitten and Infected by
Peloquin. You must run lor your life or be completely devoured.

HAVING been endlessly questioned
and heavily sedated, Aaron Boone
tried to take he own life. Somehow
his psychiatrist had concluded that
he was responsible 'or 1 1
particularly gruesome murders -
none of which Boone could recall.

As he lept in front of the
oncoming truck all Boone could
think of were the grotesque
pictures Decker had shown him.
Anyone who could pertorm such
butchery didn't deserve to live -
the truck Nt.

Boone regained consciousness In
a white room. Where was he?

Heaven? Hell? No. having been
struck by the truck, Boone's body
was thrown to the side ot the road.
He had been rushed to the local
hospital with no more than a tew
serious bruises to show for the
suicide attempt.

It was while Aaron Boone
convalesced that he encountered
a somewhat disturbed character
by the name ot Narcisse. It was
from this strange being that Boone
first heard of a place known as
Midlan. a hidden city where
monsters of all denominations I've in
peace. Decker, Boone's

psychiatrist, had convinced him
that he was indeed a monster.
Midlan seemed the natural place
for him to go. That night, Boone
escaped from the hospital-
Using Narcisse's somewhat
sketchy directions. Boone found his
way to an abandoned cemetery.
Surely the couldn't be the place. It
was then that Boone felt a sharp
pain In his shoulder. Someone or
something sank their teeth into his
already battered body. Running for
his life. Boone managed to escape
the clutches of his attacker only to
run headlong Into the hands of
Decker and the police. Boone
heard d volley ot gunfire ond tell to
the ground, dead.

Vou ptay the role of Aaron Boone
in search of the wondrous world of
Midlan The game follows the tarn's
storyline to the letter and as you
progress further into the game you'll
find yourself In some pretty hairy
scrapes Vour ultimate goal is to
prove your Innocence and reveal
the Identify of Mask, the real killer, to
the world.

In order to succeed you'll need
to coll upon the help of the
Inhabitants of Mldion, the
Nlghtbreed,

The game is controlled via the
mouse using a simplistic point and

The wide range or graphic* featured
in Nlghtbrccd make ll ■ «<ry
appealing game. Some or the still
scree nthots arc particularly effective
in conveying Ihe eerie atmosphere
needed. The few arcade sequences
are animated nicely and as a whole
(he presentation Is first-class.

Sound

The main theme music takes the form
of a haunting little ditty thai
accompanies the game well. The
numerous spot effects enhance the
atmosphere until you believe you
could almost be there.

Gameplay

Despite excellent presentation,
Nlghtbrccd suffers from being
somewhat shallow In Its gameplay.
Although there's a lot to see, Ihe
challenge Is rather lessened by the
fact that all the punlcs can be
solved using a trial and ertot system.
All In all, Nlghtbrccd falls Just short
of Ihe mark and rates as a
disappointing piece of software.

click style method. The action is spkt
into two distinct stages, the road to
Midlan and the underground city
itself. During the game you'll be
caBed upon to ptay various arcode
sequences, none ot which ore too
taxing. Ultimately you must win
through, otherwise Ihe murders wll
ptay on your conscience for ever

You must get around the surrounding area by car. Be sure to watch Upon entering Midlan, the members ot the Nlghtbreed do not
out for police roadblocks. recognise you as one of their kind and tear you to shreds.

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Having visited the shepherds,
you ore captured by a ferocious
looking dragon. If only you hod
a spell to render him harmless...

fT was long after me passing of the
second shadow, a time when huge
dragons ruled the twilight skies, that
human-kind began ro thirst once
more tor domination over nature.
Their weapon In the tight was
industry, a skill they wielded with
great confidence As man
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As time passed, the weavers did
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foe t, the art of weaving more than
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spinning the Threads In certain
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Using the great loom, the guild
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one day a young female weaver
managed to weave a child. Rather

Publisher: Lucasfilm
Price: £24.99

You find yourself (ravelling down The blacksmiths are making

a twisty mountain path. Things weapons for the warlike clerics,

would be far more simple if the Using your specialised skills you

rood was straight must stop their industrious fever.

than welcoming this magical
event, the Elders of the Guild
became angry.

They bonished the young
woman from the island of Loom
and the babe was taken into care.
Seventeen years have passed, the
weavers' magic has begun to fail.

The Loomchlld has been
summoned by the Elders, the
adventure has begun.

Loom Is unique among
adventures. Like some games,
there Is no text input. Control is via
the mouse, using a simple point
and click technique. Magic is a key

Graphics

The graphic* round within the world
of Loom arc tint-clan. The scenery It
citpcrtly drawn, almost to a point
where you begin to believe the place
actually ciltti. The animation on the
■prltci I* excellent and the
programmes have Included a variety
of lubtl* movement! that further
enhance the garnet overall appeal.

Sound

loom reaturci a whole selection of
Intricate tunes, all choreographed to
tie-In with what'i going on onscreen.
The hundrcdi of different lound
effect! enhance the gamcplay and
the help maintain mailmum
atmosphere

Gameplay

Loom If more than Juit a game. A*
progress It made though the story It
becomes apparent that what you are
In laet playing li an Interactive itory.
Unlike other adventure game*, the
point and click system doct take a
little getting uicd to. However, once
mattered, progress can be quickly
made. The game'! only real shortfall
It the tacl that the punlci can be
iolved largely by trial and error, thut
leiienlng the challenge somewhat.

part of the game and spells are
cast by forming combinations of
musical notes found upon your
mysticol Distaff.

You ploy the role of Bobbin, me
Loomchlld. The sacred loom has
been broken and the magical
powers of the weavers are
beginning to wane Your mission Is
to venture into the industrial world
fo discover the reason behind
these strange happenings

Only when you prove successful
in your task will the island of Loom
be restored fo its former glory.

T*«ZlT a Z^l° "fT™* 9 ° b " ° f bO,h0r W,,h ° Mondib "' ,h « of 'he Clerics, sees his ambition ,o rule the world

great drogon eating their flock. Can you help out? get blown away as he fQlses Qn ev|| sp|f| ,

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A watery duel ensues as Bond battles
against one of Stromberg s evil henchmen.
Too many collisions and your craft will sink.

Taking lumps at an angle can cause some
hilarious elfects. Two wheel driving may look
tancy, but it's very dangerousl

Deep sea capers ensue when Bond's
minlsub is attacked by the meglomaniac's
army of underwater assassins.

RATHER than opt for the latest
James Bond licence. Domark have
decided to recreate one of 007's
earlier escapades. Pondemonia
breaks out when both an American
and o Soviet submarine
disappears. Who can be behind
The terrltylng global take-over Old?
No one knows for sure, but the
British Secret Service ore on the
cose and assign their most famous
agent. James Bond. 007, licenced
to kill.

The brains behind the
'kidnapping" of the two nuclear
subs Is none other than the wealthy
Industrialist. Karl Strombetg. It seems
Mr. Stromberg wants to create a
better world and, from his undersea
fortress of Atlantis, he has sent an
ultimatum to the world's two super-
powers. Either they pay him the
equvalent ot Brazil s national debt
or he nukes Hollywood and Red
Square; rt's hardly cricket.

Naturally. Bond is deployed to
put paid to the meddlesome
maniac s preposterous plan. En
route he teams up with the KGB's
ace agent and together they set
out to reclaim the stolen subs. Of
course, Stromberg is none too
pleased at their intervention ond
decides tt might be best if both 007
and his friend take a short vacation
In a lead-lined box

Racing through the winding
roads of Sardinia (Spy-Hunter style).
Bond is attacked from all angles.
Using his finest driving skills he
manages to elude capture before
his Lotus Esprit transforms Into a
speed boat and the chase
continues over water.

En route Bond may collect
numerous "Q* tokens These may
be exchanged for vehicle
enhancements such as paint sprays
and smoke screens. O's creative
mind has thought of an even
greater option - the ability to
change your Lotus from a racey
sports car Into a highly
manouverabie minlsub This latter
metamorphls proves vital when you
drive headtong off a nearby lefty.

So the action continues with

THE SPY WHO

LOVED ME

Publisher: Domark Price: £24.95

Stromberg throwing everything he ocean waves Eventually, if 007 is somewhere. Leaving Bond lo ftght

has at his disposal In the path of the worth the tax-payer's money, he it out with his oversized bodyguard,

relentless Bond The chases take wins through and saves the day. the steel-toothed. Jaws,

place on lond. on sea (using both a Stromberg. being something of a Who will be victorious? 007's fate

boat and a jet ski) and under the lllly llvered coward, hops oft lies In your hands.

Graphics

Although th< sprites arc somewhat
smaller than normal, no details have
been omitted. The game li presented
very nicely and the scrolling Is
particularly imooth. Because of the
numerous different levels, there are
alio a nice variation ot things to tec

Sound

Ho Carly Simon here, Domark have
taken the original Bond theme and
souped It up somewhat In the form of
a special house remix version. The
spot effects arc -ell implemented
and work well. As the song goes,
nobody does It better.

Gameplay

Despite backtracking somewhat,
Domark have produced a first-rate
game that Incorporates both Spy
Hunter end Operation Wolf-style
gameplay. Difficulty has been set at
lust the right level, allowing players
to progress each time they play.

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SHADOW of the Beast n is very
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have listened to the comments
made about the first game and
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second instalment of the Beast
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Having (ought your way across
the plains, you managed to reach
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As time passed, people moved
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What with the Mage long since
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The forest Is a sacred place and the tribesmen certainly don't like
intruders violating their lands.

electrical currents to run oil over his
body The figure turned and twisted
until It had become a hideous
winged creature. Gttding effortlessly
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creofure swooped over a
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Inside d baby screamed as Its
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and grasped the babe. The
creature took off into the distance,
leaving the poor woman all alone
In the darkness.

So It was that the Beast Mage
returned, taking your onty son In the
process. There was no question
what you must do. even without
your Beast powers you must travel
to the Kara-Moon, defeat the
Mage and rescue your heir.

Beast ii looks quite similar to its

Graphics

Psygnosis pride themselves on
producing slaie-of-lhc-ar t graphics.
Shadow of the leas! M has 10 be
their best yet. Superbly animated
creatures Inhabit the land of Kara-
Moon and the landscapes arc truly
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sec the amaxlng t3 levels of parallel
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Sound

The haunting theme tunc sets the
atmosphere perfectly. The many
sound effects arc varied and
extremely well Implemented. Even
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solo.

Gameplay

Shadow of the Beast II Is a flrst-ratc
arcade game. Control Is via the
joystick and moving around Kara-
moon couldn't be easier. The punk
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ot Kara-Moon probing questions.
You may even barter objects In
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One thing that hasn't changed Is
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Chests contain health-giving potions and valuable cash. But they're puzzles and traps abound. If I were you I'd kill that menacing giant
guarded by huge monsters which must be sloln flrit. before he pushes the spiked block your way.

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Bigger - ad better!

Welcome to Commodore's 15th Christmas Show. This year we have built on last
year's success and made the show bigger and better than ever.

As the number one company in home and leisure computers we have brought in
some of the country's biggest software houses who will be showing their latest
Christmas offerings such as Robocop 2 from Ocean and Line of Fire from US gold.

Along with Psygnosis, Domark, Mirrorsoff, Mindscape, Elite and Electronic Arts a
whole host of exciting titles will be available for your Amiga and Commodore 64.
Many titles will also be making their debut on cartridge for the brand new C64
Games system.

None of this would be complete without the opportunity to try out all these new developments and Commodore
alone is providing a games arcade with over 20 systems. Courtesy of our distributors and dealers most of what you see
will be on sale at highly competitive prices.

Finally, I would like to thank all our Commodore users for the marvellous support they have given us over the past
year, and wish you all an enjoyable show.

Stephen Franklin
Managing Director

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Stand 2

Amor

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Stand 3

Memory Expansion Systems

Britannia Buildings. 46 Fenwlck Street, Liverpool L? 7NB Tel: 051 236 0480. Fax:
051 227 2482

Memory Expansion Systems will be seling and demonstrating their new range of Cortex memory
products to the Amiga. Hgh quawy half meg. 2meg. 4. 6 and 8 meg tonga upgrades win be on
sale along with hard disk systems and external floppy drives Al at special show p/ices

Ram chips for all types of machne will be avabble including I m » *M static cokimn drams for
fheA3000

Stand 4

Rombo

6 Fairbairn Road, Kirkton North, Livingstone. Scotland EH54 6TS. Tef 0506
414631. Fax. 0506 414634.

Rombo manufacture a tow cost, wgn specification video Frame Grabber |or Ogitaerj for a range of
various machines e g Commodore Mnoa Alan ST and BM Al/XT compatibles
Dont mrss the chance to see for yourself the wersaofiry and quality that 8 attainable from our tow
cost hi-specrfxation digaser

Stand 8

HiSoft

The Old School. Greenfield. Bedford. MK45 5DE Tel: 0525 718181
713716.

Fax: 05 25

Stand 1 0

Interactive Publishing

Europa House. Arlington Park. Macclesfield, SK.I0 4NP Tel: 06?5 878888. Fax:
0625 879966

Interactive Publishing is Europe* foremost publisher ol Arraga specific magazines with AMIGA
ACTION and AMIGA COMPUTING representing all tastes

AMIGA ACTION will appeal to avid games players and fans or shoot emups with the most
comprehensve round up of games reviews rt any Amiga magaane n the UK.

8ntamS longest einoKhed Amiga maganne. AMIGA COMPJTWG appears in «s sensational new

68 Amiga Computing

took for the 90s. incorporating more pages of features, commert and news than ever before.

AMIGA COMPUTING is esseniial reading to All dedicaied Amiga owners with cover*)
everything from programming to games, desktop publishing to music and communicatx
graphics, plus a kvefy news round and letters page - in fact everything any Arrtga enthusiast :
know

Come to STAND 19 NOW witn your special snow edoon of AMGA COMPUTING and Duyj
great cover disk for just El Subscnbe to either of our magazines TODAY and take away Al
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Stand 1 2

Ocean Software

6 Central Street. Manchester M2 5NS Tel: 061 832 6633. Fax: 061 834 0650.
The seasons caCKgue 6 stronger man eve/ refrectng the company! nvestmert m software deverc
arm desgn. rcirfaong C domrant posoon as the principal pubtoner of computer games in Europe

The new range of product covers both 8 bit and 16-bit architecture encompassing
game types and paying tribute to a wide variety of rreaove sources.

CARTRIDGE SUPPORT - lending a new dimension to the Commodore 64 format Cartridge I
major advantages never before fully expkned

These advantages are Instant access and loading loading from tape and drsk a deemed I
time consuming and wasteful tfi the eyes of the games player - valuable playing time si
maomaed Larger memory games Up to two Meg (256K) can be stored on a cartridge
more graphics, more levels and generally far more game. Presentation Detailed and
between level screens and greater g/aphc animation

An Oceans new ones on Commodore cartridge arc wntten speolcalV 'or the format ir
explomng all of the above features.

STOP PRESSI For the first time ever Oceans full range of Christmas tides are afl avaCbV* enj
>vnnen specialty for the CommcxJcre Anxja

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Stand 14

US Action

4 Whittlon Road. Twickenham. Middlesex TWI IBJ Tel: 081 891 6713 Fax
892 8127

US AcDorvAmga Died No I Amiga Speoabsts Now n Bnon US AcoorVAmga Orw Emcees trail ,-Grea
Amga Club, mere than 10.000 members

Due io our international networt (Hofenfl Belgium. Germany. U S A and England)
you can now save hundreds of pounds on recommended retail prices, four only commitmert
pay El 0 for one years membership

when you join you can choose any one of the following free gifts, wicked SO gams
Mouse pad Marauder n .the number one copy program in the U S A

You will also receive four times a year a free coUur catalogue. There wi also be dscoufl
certain U K computer shows entrance fees and special offers at unbeatable prices, no
buy However at our unbeatable prices you can! resist

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Psysnosis

bun Harrington Building. 182 Sefton Street. Liverpool 13 4BQ Tel 05 1 709 5755
F# 051 AW 6466

Me wi be AWESOME and 08ITUS which are Doth T Stwr rxoduos. and CAPThWjE. and our
bet weapon product for 1990 whicn n caHed Lemmings. We win ato be previewing our CDTV
bnotogy

Stand 1 9

I Special Reserve & Official Secrets

30770. Fax: 0279 726842.
Reserve and Official Secret! are tne largest computer games clubs in the UK. with a
' ip of over 35,000 1 6-bit games payers,
dubs are run by Inter-Medaies. the company headed by Tony Rainttird, founder of Raintwd

Reserve supplies games lo members at heaWy discounted prices, a result of to Dutt
pokey

provides members with colourful CyDerpunk magazine cafed NRG With News, Reviews ard
of new games

Secrets is tailored id the needs of adventure and rote- players, supplying a vwde range of
arNemxe software through Special Reserve
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fcny Rarnbtrd. Win Tode DeOote rVbgrane and Karen Hal will be on Stand 1 9, ready to persuade
iBBflrn

Stand 21

Micro Anvika

B/54 Toftenham Court Road, Lorxlon Wl P 9RE Tel- 07 1 636 2547
pettme to the 1 990 Xmas Cc*nmooorp show Micro Anvta are pleased to be fating partnthis
|WS Wnas show agam and as afways m keeping with the tradition we have packed our stand with
Bttngi fuu of goodies

Wwher you are looking for the west m Amiga software or hardware we are at your service
the best pnee on any goods at the show we wish all our vtsrtors a Merry Christmas and a
new Armoa tear

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CYB Computers

' Crown Parade. Crown lane Morden, Surrey SrVM 5 DA Tel: 081 542 7662 Fax:
~ 543 7527

premier Amiga dealer Anything for the lenous Amiga user Is catered tor. See us at the
lorvs* our really large showrooms Superb mailorder service
I you have any ouesDons or prcolems concerning Amiga hardware or software, come see us.
I prices on all products The compMitxyi knows us you should roof

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ilid State Leisure

Fmedon Road. Irthlirwtwrough. Northants NN9 5TZ. Tel; 0933 650677 Fan:
»33 3II790.

I State leisure ri IHE raing star of the Amga market with and expert progject design team and
1 -the -an research and development equrpement. coupled wtth large scale manufacturing
I rs set to take the Amiga market by storm

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MI0 Bath Road. Slough SLI 6JA. Tel. 0628 668320 fax. 0628 668592

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rer Computing

Stanley Street. Bectford MK4I 7RW Tef; 0234 233000. Fax: 0236 270133.
Boopy drives, memory expansions, chips and software, to tne latest n ruec hardware from
you wtl find c all on the Power Computing stand
look out for the 50MHz 69030 accelerator card (or the B2000. and the 600MB Optical Drive,
ion show will Oe the Grand new A500 hard dak drive from GVJ? the Amiga FrarwgrabOtt and
•newVkieoMattei I>gimer-Gerrtxk from vYJtech

taj can buy cxrr>^ Amiga FroppyOrve. the 5 1 ?k Memory E*pansor\ anj the I 5Mb Memory
ladateKifing showpncesl

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ter London Computers

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2688

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ronic Arts

Langiey Business Centre. 1 1 -49 Station Road, Langley. Berks SJJ 8YN Tel 0753
12 Fax: 0793 46672

Electron* Arts rs a leading producer of home entertarimenf computer software. With the success of
Dues like Poiulous, 688 Attack Sub. Detune Paint III. and Interceptor, the company has been a
dominant force rn bnrxjng mteractrve entertainment to the market

Showng in their booth are a unique line of products rangng from fast raong action with inefcan
apofls 500. magical wizardry with The immortal and ultimate conquest with their new hit
PowerMonger

PowerMonger is the next product from the designers of Populous. 8ulrfrog Productions.
Electronic Arts welcome you to via their booth, play their games and ask questions.

Stand 40

Domark

Ferry House. 55-57 Lacy Road. Putney, London SVVI5 IPR. Tef 081 780 2222 Fax-
081 780 1540.

Amga C64 Games Systems .. Commodore 64 Whatever the machine you own trust Domark to
come up with the gcodsi We've got a fabulous selection of software from arcade games to fight
simulators

On the Amiga By the ufcmate in fighter jets - the MI&29 Fulcrum or test dnve the amazing Hard
DrMhl - sequel to its No I Best Selling predecessor.

Ifspeedsyoijrarm then STUN Runners your game and dent forger Spy and Badlands.
New for the C64 GS are the amazing Tengen comop conversions of WidKatorv. Cyberbail. wfxh
gives a new meaning to American football, Kiax. tne addrnfvely simple orainteaser artf Badlands
sequel to the superb Super Spnrtt

Take Bond on at hi: iwn game in The Spy Who Loved Me and beat the best in the dirtiest race In
town - Badlands. Both fcr tne Ccnvrooore 64

Stand 42

Silica Shop

Unit 10 RuxJey Corner Industrial Estate. Edgmton Way, Srdcup Bypass. S*dcup Kent
DAM 5SS Tel: 081 309 1 1 1 1 . Fax. 081 308 1230.

Sikca Shop are the UKs No I Commodore Amga speoafrst retaner and hold the largest range of
Amiga products In the country

They will have a wide selection of these products at the show, covering both hardware and
software. Silica have been dedicated to the Arr»ga range ever since its release into the UK market
and are now the unOBputed leaders n the Amiga fiend

Apart from the* london and Srdcup branches. Silo run a speedy mail order operation and
provide Amiga owners with a specialist service thai 6 second to none, including FREE newsletters
and technical support helpline

To recerve SAcas FREE brochures, contact S*ea by telephone or write to SiDca Shop. 1-4 The
Mews. Hathertey Road Sidcup. Kent DAI 4 4DX, or you may register today at the Commodo/e User
Show oy completing a card on the S*ca Shop stand

Both Silica branches and marl order (Jepaitment w* be extending their opening noun during the
Christmas period. For further detarls call S*ca on 081 309 Mil.

Stand 46a

Mindscape

P O Box 1019. Lewes East Sussex BN8 40W Tef 044 486 54S/547 Fax: 044 486 688
Mindscape will be showing all of its powerful Chrtttmas lineup on Commodore Amiga, Commodore
PC and CorrmcKJore GS.

visitors to the show wi get a chance to pray the brand new game from Gray Matter called The
Ultmate Ride - mis is motorbike raong srrriulation at its very best with some amazing graphics from
the painc box of the creators of Fiendish Fieddy - making The Uftmaie Ride a real rte/acnve racing
movie

Ever fancied a chance of becoming a hospital surgeon?
Lire and Death for the Amiga puts the scalpel and the fife of your patient firmly in your hands

Mindscape will also be showing its autumn hi Captive Fans of the game wl have the charce
to meet proc/ammer Tony Crowther ana glean some hot pttyng bps or maybe even the real news
about Captrve I - Freedom Fighters.

Mindscape will premier the wotmg range o* simulation product by the world famous Three-Sixty
team from California

The frnt games are Blue Mw - the world war oog fqnt sirmxarar and Das Boct a stunnng U-
boat smulaoon with a mutople mrsson sceruno. Both w« be on the A/nga before Christmas

For those who cant handle the pace from the rest of our Christmas games, there a at last the
chance to play the worlds best sellng chess game on the Amiga - Chesynaster 2 100.

There is no doubt that whatever your taste m games is. it cannot fad to pe satisfied by a via to the
Undscape Grotto

Stand 46b

Chettah

Nonjury House. Norbury Road. Fairwater. Cardiff CF5 3AS Tel: 0222 555525. Fax:
0222 555527

Cheetah the UKs leading manufacturer of computer joysodts, peripherals and muacat instrumenis,
will be proudly showing their new and existing ranges

The company will be grvng away tree T shirts wilh tne purchase of selected items as weD as
offering very special deals on other products.

Speech syntfiesaen, infra red joysticks and irtertaces will be amongst these speca offers, so a voir
to Cheetah near the Commodore stand should not go amiss

Of course the company also rrianufacture games cartridges for the worlds leading software
house*, and personnel will be on rvmd to answer any inquiries

Stand 48

Marcam

62 Tenter Road. Moulton Part. Business Centre. Northampton NN3 I AX Tel: 0604
790466. Fax: 0604 647403.

Marcam have for the past fax years been producing the high quality range of Rentaie Cirsibdcs.

Amiga Computing 69

CHAMPAGNE SUITE - UPPER LEVEL

BAR

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AREA

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28

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37

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42

46B

48

49

53

50

52

51

66

65

64

54

55

56

57

58

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Exhibitors Index

A I 5000 Ltd 49

Alf Payne 131

Arnor 2

Athene Computers 1 1 4

Best Byte 1 05

Bits N' Bytes 112

Cate Electronics 135

Cheetah 46b

Commodore 35

Compliment 1 38

Computer Vision 1 04

Connect International 127

CYB 26

Database Interactive 1 0

Digital Discs 121

Domark 40

Dowlrng Computers 1 06

Eclipse 147

Electronic Arts 38

Elite Systems 51

70 Amiga Computing

European Peripherals 134

Evesham Micros 107

■ ft^^j •■tiiitttiitiiiiiiiiitii * 5 7

Greater London Computers 37

Harpers 1 1 1

Hi-Tech Computer Supplie s56

HiSoft8 ICPUG 54

Marcam 48

Media Direct 1 22

Mediaware 109

Memory Expansion Systems 3

Micro Anvika 21

Microsmart 102

Miles Better Software 1 24

Mindscape 46a

Mirrorsoft 68

Mutant Software 1 03

Nadisystems 123

Nova PD 58

Ocean Software 12

Power Computing 33

Premier Mail Order 1 30

Psygnosis 16

Public Dominator 65

Rombo 4

Senlec Software PD 132

Silica Shop 42

Siren Software 137

Softsellers 101

Softstore 31

Software Selection 1 13

Solid State Leisure 28

Special Reserve & Official Secrets . 1 9

Start Computer Systems 125

Track Computer Systems 133

Turbo Software 1 43

U S Action 14

WTS Electronics 129

Who's who

at the
Show - and
where to
find them

CHRISTMAS SHOW

EXHIBITION CENTRE - LOWER LEVEL

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65

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42

137

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113

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104

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102

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101

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Amiga Computing 71

me 8807 ard the 8806

At this show we are bunching [he latest Renaale Genlock, a Super-VHS version of the economy
priced 8802. tho version as wefl as havng the usual features of the 8802 also has fade and wpe
options fined as standard, also mode control selection a provided by hardware

Nowadays, as wd as producing Rendate products, the company is also marketing quaKy thrd
party products, such as the Framec/aDoef and 30 Professional professorial qualrty products from
the States

Stand 49

A1500

3rd Floor, 21 Great Portland Street. London WIN 5DB. Tel 07I 637 2281 Fax:
071 637 4002.

Al 500 has been formed as the tracing company for rjwAlSOTeiipansionsyswforf^ArnigaSOO
by Its inventor Michaef Roots

following two years of research and design, the product has been successfully prototyped over
the last few months and rs now in full producton The Al 500 expansion system is being official
launched at this exhorwn

The systems r apeMrties include Detachable keyboard, up to three dak drives |rwo floppy dnves
mounted at front), mouse and joysock pom at from, internal Amiga 500 and Arriga 2000 busses,
Amiga 2000 video port additional microprocessor socket 19m rack mourwxj system

Stand 51

Elite Systems

Anchor House. Anchor Road, Aldndge. Walsall. West Midlands WS9 8PW Tel'
0922 55852 Fax 0922 743029.

Eke exhibits ai the Ccimmodore Xmas Show tor me first ane evet showng some of the new C64
and Amiga products scheduled for release dumg AutumnAWnter 1990. On the sand we shall he
etfiibfflng Grernkns 2 - Amiga Tournament Golf - Amiga, world Championship Soccer Amiga and
C64 ASo. an, as yet unannounced tOe scheduled fa release January 1990. hope rjirs sliow
win be a very good launch pad into this new phase of licensed products under development

Stand 54

ICPUG

45 Brookscroft Union Glade. Croydon. Surrey CR0 Tel: 081 651 5436. Fax.
081 651 3428

ICPUG. the Independent Commodore Products Users Group, rs the premier computer user group in
Brian and s in its twelfth year Untte many srxaied user groups, which are only commercial
marketing operations. ICPUG Is a genuine association of computer users working together for
mutual benefit and organized as a ran- profit making cooperative It is coordinated by a voluntary
national comrmtee. and there *e many separate regcnal groups Benefits of membership mdude
access to the FREE public domain software library technical assistance and discounts on hardware
and software. The ICPUG Journal, which ts produced six times a year, a in the region of one
himed pages per a sue ft is widely regarded as the most author wove journal on Commodore
machines m the world, providing extensive coverage of the full range of computers nckxkng the
Amiga. C64. PC PET and all other models For additional information please contact Janet
Btkerstaff

Stand 56

Hi-Tec Computer Supplies

131 Wellington Street Peterborough PEI 5DU. Tel: 0733 555945 Fax 0733
558974

Stand 57

FMG

Hazlilt Mews. Hazlitt Road. London WI4 0JZ N£ 071 603 3313 Fax: 071 602
2627

FMG are suppliers of repairs and on-site maintenance for all Commodore computers - from C64s and
ASOOs to PCs As well as repairs the company arso offers Mended warranties on C64s and A500s
to guard agars any mecharwa failure tor rwo yean Just one payment gives you peace of mind
and corrfkJence m your computer for the period covered - if anything goes wrong, you smpry send
it back to FMG and they* reparr rt for not extra c large As a special offer for the show FMG are
grnng away free software with every emended warranty taken out For detafc just pop along to
Stand 57 in the Champagne Suite

Stand 58

Nova PD

30 Parsons Street, Banbury. Oxon OXI6 SLY Tel 0295 262029. Fax: 0295
275044

Nova PD provide a complete Public Domain service for the Amiga, everything from untoes to the
latest demos Over 800 disks m flock plus a free ordering service and same day despatch make
Nova one of the most popular PD companies around Nova have recently released a low cost
Database system and the, win be available from their stand for just E9 99

Stand 65

Public Dominator

P0 Box 801. Bishops Stortford. Hem CM233TP Tel. 0279 757692.
Suppliers ol Public Domain and Shareware software for the Commodore Arriga

Stand 68

Mirrorsoft

Irwin House. 1 18 Southwark Street London SEI Tel: 07 1 928 1454. Fax; 071
3494.

Wrrorsoft Is Europes leading 1 6 bit Entertainment Software Publisher In addition to
Entertanment software under its two house labeh Imageworks and PSS, Mrrorsoft also pu
behalf of three of Americas most exciting software houses Onemaware. PSS and S"
HoUoyte AH labels represented by Mrrorsoft have a strong brand identity and market
can offer European game players both al rxxne and atroad a range Df Ira class product catc
every major market area 1 989 was Mrrorsofts best year ever m terms of cntical acclaim
commemal success, we Defceve our nne-up for 1990s even stronger

Stand 101

Softsellers

6 Bond Street Ipswich. Suffott IP4 IJE.Tef 0473 216160. Fax 0473 213457

Stand 1 02

Microsmart

I25 Strong High Street. Milton Keynes MKI I I AT Tel: 0908 564369.
Mcosman a name that is associated with the more experienced companies of me in
renowned for Its 16-bfl penpherals and uUDes knowledge and stockholding, and still beng
much in touch with the 16-D* games software market, invorvng odes old and new We have :
nght product at the right pnce. So whether your need rs through our wholesale or maWrdef,~
cat a sales team that is down to earth, /irormaove and not full of trme wasting sales sped

Stand 103

Mutant Software

475 Staines Road. Bedfom Middlesex TWI4 6BL Tel: 081 751 5999 Fax: 081
5760.

Computer software games. Speoaksts. Amxja Atari and PC games held at Mutant headquarters
immediate sale to the crazy games buying public - cum chefc dis vt at stall nomoer wrteter

Stand 1 04 |

Riverdene PDL

30a School Road. Tilenurst. Reading. Berkshrre RG3 5AW Tel: 0734 452416
0734 451239

Bverdene PDL is more than just a pubbc domain library with customers all over the world We
grown to be one of the best by offering that lrTOe bit extra" Our hotfcne. for example is on I
the serious Amiga user when difficulties anse Also a laser outputting service a offered together
electronic transfer on to 35mm colour slides of your favourite computer graphics. Cr.
hardware and software w*h associated anctoy items are available at very competitive prices
our new shop ptmrses m Peadng Come 10 our stand and see for yourself our Mad Hatter

Stand 1 05

Best Byte Software

48 Nevill Avenue. Hove. East Sussex BN3 7NA Tel 0273 746467
QrigMty founded m 1986, Best Byte has bmtt a 'eputawn in the mail order market as one
service excelence with unbeatable prices The very latest Amiga games will be available over
counter at discount show prices Large stocks of blank disks wr* be on supply whKh have
very popular with customers Peripherals from mouse mats to memory upgrades, from dust
(o rjrsk dnves wi be on sale. Hot out of user groups hands will be the very best m music and
demos paying on our stand (many r^evously unreleased| and for sale at a mmmal charge.

Stand 106

Dowlins Computers

48 Tyne Road. Sandy. Beds SGI 9 ISA Tel: 0767 68 1 760 Fax 0767 68 1 730.
On sale will be many popular products for you' Amiga ■ pnces w* as usual be very competitw
our staff will be pleased to discuss your particular requirements As well as the newer
products we will have the new range of Star 9 pin and 24 pin printers ■ mono and colour
wish you a happy snow and a very meny Christmas

Stand 107

Evesham Micros

Unit 9. St Richards Road. Evesham. Worcs WRI I 6XJ. Tel 0386 765500. Fax: 0!
765354

One of the Ongest estabUhed companes n their field. Evesham Mcros offers extensive
options, vwh a solid 'eputanon for good service and pnees Awarded "Atan Dealer of the year
the company feets it is a significant tnbute to their commorient to the Atari rar^e of com
whets extends over three years The* mail order service utilises the latest n computerised max"
technology. wh*st also operating reta* showrooms n Evesham, Cambridge and Birmingham
have the* own comprehensively equipped workshop, where trained teefnoans are available
help and advice Customer Services and Techrncf* Department offer complete afier-saka

Stand 1 09

Mediaware

unit 19 Teddington Business park. Station Road. Middlesex TWII 9BQ Tel
977 8777 Fax: 081 977 9444

72 Amiga Computing

;tand 1 1 1

irpers Computers

Commercial Way. Woking. Surrey GU2 1

HN. Tel: 0483 756601 fax 0483

16. fi

Computer* have been involved tn supplying computer* for nearly 10 yean and can offer
: » you requfe. We w* be Wring me West range of Commodore computers along with
fpeflpnerab ncludmg Star and Dozen pnneers We hope you enjoy the show and please do
loir aand o» your wont know what you miueOl

ind 112

'N' Bytes

Lane. Ipswich. Suffolk.
SH Bytes computer centres are one of East Angkas leading computer retailers covering at aspects
Fterrxnputff industry from games machines to the 386 desktop PC On safe at this venue will be
[6 Of software Deluding new releases as wen as back catalogue trtses at massrvery reduced prices
•wfl be one oftoCers tor the 16 off tar Computers, printers, monitory and perrpherats w* also
[Haw* at massive discounts, n wtf be possible to order hardware and software at tho venue
I favet maled to you the following wee*.

itand 113

jftware Selection

'OBoi 786. Sutton CoWfield. West Midlands BT4 4MG Tel. 021 352 0847.
1 Selector Games for Cc^nmodon? Amiga. CM - C 16 at bargain pnees

itand 1 1 4

Athene Computers

i Stoke toad. C3ospott Hants POI2 IJB Tel: 0705 51 1439. Fat: 0705 51 1646.

Etand 121

Discs

IBumsxleOive, Bramcote Hills. Beeston. Notts. NG9 3EE. Tel. 0602 256197

tand 1 22

iia Direct

Sage Close, Hanley. Stoke on Trent ST I 3SF Tel. 0782 208228.
" i Direct started off as a small tamify business operarjng from one of the partners homes. As
'Cfuaon as a company that supplies quanty produn and eweflent service, we have grown to
^mngs one of the leading mail order suppliers of computer accessories and consumables
the time we have been trading our product range has significantly increased to meet the
; of our customers We pnde oursetVes n supplying a Quality service and He to think that we
•a company who m always puts the customer first

itand 123

idisystems

W3 Fairloot Road. London E3 4EJ Tel: 07 1 537 4702

IWDGVSIEMS we specialise in compute' supplies ie. diskettes, listing papers, labels, storage
rtOonj etc We also sell computer systems We Amiga Atari. Amstrad. Oftvetti. Opus and a
'range of primers and other peripherals Mrye details on the stand.

Itand 124

Better Software

WW2I Cannock Road, Cannock, Staffs WS1

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irt Computer Systems

can House. Bonnersfield. Sunderland SR6 OA Tel 091 564 1400. Fax 091
1005

tand 127

onnect International

Talis Lane, Fenstanton Huntingdon. Cambridge. PEI8 9U. Tel: 0844 47831

tand 129

ms Electronics

Master House. Chaul End lane. Luton Beds LU4 8E2 Tel' 0582 491949.
0582 505900.

Specialist in memories and marntenance wi be selling thou much renowned AS00 I/? Meg
rWory Upgrade with the Chip Memory' option, coupled with me long awaited A500 High Quality
tamalDnve FVodutD wt« be available stnguUrty » as super wtiue disccunted Chnstmas 8umper
to All products will be sold at unbelievable show prices, in addition other exerting products wi
be available on our itand. along with repair and technical advice from our second to none
■fflfUter engineering staff who win be at your dcposaJ to help with any technical problems you
if have, or faulty machines in need of attention. All n aL if you want to leave the show with a
inaface. nealthy computer and wealthy wallet be sure lo visa WTS on aand number 129

Stand 130

Premier Mail Order

6 Buckwins Square. Burnt Mills, Basildon. Essex SS13 IB/ Tel' 0268 590766. Fax'
0268 590076.

Premier Mat Order rs one of the oldest established Software mail order companies and has been
provtong a fast reliable service to many thousands of satisfied customers We wi be displaying a
wide range of Amiga software and penpherars at very competrove pnees along with some amaang
udrgans for those CBM 64 owners amongst you. on our stand Hopefully, delays permitting we
should nave some of the major Christmas releases available including. POWERMONGER
R080COP2. TOTAL RECALL GOLDEN AXE. OFF ROAD RACING and maybe even those elusive
TURTLES Please come and visit our stand and be greeted with a good buy

Stand 131

Alf Payne

23 Victoria Road, Dagenham, Essex RMI0 7XL Tel: 081 595 4904/5153.

For Christmas bargains great and small. Come to us wew got them all "Well probably' Amiga

games, budget and run price, joystick, disc drives, half Meg upgrades etc

Stand 1 32

Senlac Software

14 Oaklea Close. Otd Roar Road. Sr Leonards on Sea, East Sussex TN37 7HB Tel
0424 753070. Fax; 0424 755093

Senlac for al your Poole Doman software We cany a comprehenswe range of P0 and Shareware
progr«»ms. corxentraorxj now soiety kn Die Annga Come lo our stand and see the latest animation
from Doctor Gandale upgrade' 5 megs worth of Turbosilver animation

Stand 133

Track Computer Systems

Blacksmiths yard, Sadler Gale, Derby DE I 3PD. Tel: 0332 41817. Fax 0332 4400 1 .
Visit Stand 133 for the future of software retailing Track will have over 500 games ttOes on compact
dts* ready to download for your Commodore 64 or Amiga. There w* also be amaang superbase
dears Doni forget the r«gty acclaimed track put*: doma software sets at an incredible E4 95 for 5
disks Also availaWe many items of serous software at senous discounts Check our advert m Amiga
Computing Spot pores may be awarded for anybody spotting any Track team member not on the
stand. Check Dis Out

Stand 1 34

European Peripherals

36 Cranfbrd Gardens. Compton Acres West Bndgeford. Nottingham NG2 7SE. Tel
0602 841640.

Stand 135

Care Electronics

800 St Albans Road. Garston. Hem WD2 bN. Tel. 0923 672 1 02

Care Electronics will be launching their amaang Flexi-Dump. ScreenDump utility Compattte with

an an packages (including Spectrum 5 1 2).

Stand 137

Siren Software

84-86 Prices Street Manchester M I 6NG Tel: 06 1 228 1 83 1
Siren Software will be showing the remarkable Soundbiaster a stereo ampMer that comes complete
witn speakers, power supply and a f REE set of stereo headphones We. w* also be seUng and
demonstrating X-Copy Professional, the ultimate rise backup system BesaJes copyng floppy dug.
X-Copy Professional also has hard drsc backup and a superb file copier WSJ also be supplying disc
dnves. discs and PD software

Stand 138

Complement

52/53 Margaret Street London, WIN 7FF Tet:07 1 4363436

Stand 143

Turbo Software

Unit 6/7 Acacia Close, Cherry Court Way Industrial estate. StenDridge Road,
Leighton Buzard LU7 8QE Tel 0525 852277 Fax: 0525 852278

Stand 1 46

D K Discs

8 Chelsea Road. Lower Weston. Bath HAI 3DU. Tel: 0225 310463 fax' 0225
446827.

Stand 147

Eclilpse

Amiga Computing 73

s Commodore

CHRISTMAS SHOW

Seminar
Timetable

FRIDAY

11.1 5am- 1 2. 1 5pm COMMODORE

2pm-3pm PSYGNOSIS

3.30pm-4.30pm AMOS/FUN SCHOOL 3

SATURDAY

10.1 5am- 1 1 am AMOS/FUN SCHOOL 3

11.1 5am-l 2. 1 5pm COMMODORE

2pm-3pm ICPUG

SUNDAY

10.30am-l 1.30am

AMOS/FUN SCHOOL 3

1 2 noon-1 pm

ELECTRONICS ARTS

1.30pm-2.30pm

ICPUG

The provisions! Seminar timetable was correct at the time of going to press. But a number ol
other presentations are being arranged to take place (luring the three days of the Show.

PSYGNOSIS

Psygnosis presents the future of games entertainment - the
next generation.

COMMODORE

David Chamberlain, of Soft Stuff Software, will be presenting
hissuccessful range of 'Lets Spell" software packages, one or
which is featured in Commodores new "Class of the 90s - First
Steps' pack. SoftStuff Software continues to develop education
software In conjunction with fully qualified primary school
teaching staff, with the aim of making learning fun for young
children.

ICPUG

At the Independent Commodore Products Users Group's
question and answer seminars you will be able to fire your
questions at a team of experts. A team will be drawn each day
from the following: Tim Arnor (Precision Software), John
Bickerstaff (chairman ICPUG), Harry Broomhall (programmer!.
Jack Cohen (8 cut specialist). John Collins (programmer), Brian
Grainger (languages expert). Joe Griffin (vice chairman ICPUG).
Nigel Haydon (technical advisor). Will Light (computer lecturer).
Peter Miles (Amiga librarian}, Dave Parkinson (Ariadne
Interactive!. Peter Richardson (regional organiser - north), Kelly
Sumner (Commodore sales director). Mark Tilley (Arnor). Barry

Thurston (Commodore developer support). Gary Van Hoel (p
rog rammer), Chris Wright (Bytes and Pieces).

AMOS/FUN SCHOOL 3

Unleash your imagination with AMOS and experience its speed
and power as the Mandarin technical staff put AMOS through
its paces. This market leading package has sold more than
25.000 copies to date and you'll discover how easy it is to
create your own exciting software

AMOS 3D will also be on show Colourful 3D objects can be
animated in real-time to music - and all in AMOS Basici

For those of you with children, Database Educational
Software will be demonstrating its range of Fun School 3
packages - for under Ss. 5 to 7 and Over 7s - the follow-up to
the 160,000 best selling Fun School 2. The talk will show how
easy learning can be with this fun and addictive software.

ELECTRONIC ARTS

Electronic Arts will be presenting some of their newest titles for
the Christmas season. Featuring will be their new release,
Powermonge. This is from the designers of (he mega-hl(
Populous.

Come by and see why this masterpiece program has been
getting the highest reviews in almost all the computer
magazines. As Zero magazine put it. "Its ruddy brilliant"

74 Amiga Computing

We do it in real-time

. . . and in
COLOUR.

JCL

All our video digitisers are real-time colour and capture a
picture as fast as a TV camera can provide it, PLUS - All include
a live framestore output for connecting to a second picture
monitor or even a TV set to simplify focusing and setup. (Your
computer monitor may have a switched CVBS input so you may
not need a separate framestore display.) PLUS - All have mono-
chrome facilities with comprehensive software tools.

SuperPic Amiga - Real-time digitising with genlock. Soft-
ware to take advantage of the Amiga's colourful 4096 colour
HAM display; including overscan and interlace as well as 32
colour mode. Writes IFF compatible and custom format picture
files. Works with A2000, A500 (Al 000 with adaptor).

Recommended retail price £52037 (£599 inc. VAT).

SuperPic PC - Includes IBM interface card and UHF TV
framestore output. The framestore system means that even non-
VGA PC users can save and recall colour images. Software to
produce 256 colour VGA images from a palette of 256,000 and
write GIF, PCX and custom format files.

Recommended retail price £520.87 (£599 inc. VAT).

ColourPic Amiga - Similar specification to SuperPic Amiga
without genlock but includes UHF TV output.

Recommended retail price £433.92 (£499 inc. VAT).

SuperPic, SuperPic PC and ColourPic can be obtained from
your Amiga/PC dealer or for UK orders only send your cheque
(including VAT) made out to JCL Business Systems and your
digitiser will be shipped FOC by courier within two days (subject
to availability). State model required. For orders outside UK please
phone or FAX for details.

BUSINESS SYSTEMS LIMITED

71 St. John's Road, Tunbridge Well, Kent TN4 9TT. Tel: Tunbridge Wells (0892) 510845. Fax: (0892) 511772

Diamond Computers

** Call your local branch now! **
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London 081-597 8851 Bristol (0272) 693545 Southern Ireland 061-376744
Manchester 061-257 3999 Export Hotline: 0272 693545

Diamond's Screen Gems!

AMIGA 500 computer with all the
following!

Shadow Of The Beasl II, Days Of Thunder, Back To
The Future II, Night Breed, Deluxe Paint II,
Datastorm, Dungeon Quest, E-Motion, Grand Monstti
Slam, Kid Gloves, Chessplayer, RVF Honda,
Shufflepuck Cafe, Microprose Soccer.
Rick Dangerous + 100 PD Programs & a Joystick!
Special bonus: Two mystery games!

Diamond's Flight Of Fantasy!

AMIGA 500 computer with all the
Following!

F29 Retaliator, Rainbow Islands,
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters,
Deluxe Paint II, Datastorm, Dungeon Quest, E-Motion,
Grand Monster Slam, Kid Gloves,
Chessplayer. RVF Honda, Shufflepuck Cafe,
Microprose Soccer, Rick Dangerous + 100 PD
Programs & a Joystick!
Special bonus: Two mystery games!

All for

£399

All for

including VAT

4£

including VAT

Diamond's Flight Of Fantasy 2!

AMIGA 500 computer with all the
following!

F29 Retaliator, Rainbow Islands,
Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters,
Deluxe Paint II, Blood Money, Menace, Ballistix.
Total Eclipse, Dark Side, Clown-o-mania, Table

Tennis, Saint & Greavsie, BAAL, Paperboy,
Netherworld + 100 PD Programs & a Joystick!

All for

£399

including VAT

Commodore A590

_ ^ — - - ovVv: - -v

20Mb Hard disk with 2Mb memory on V O Q

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good value for money then look:

Diamond's Screen Gem Pack

PLUS

New Philips 8833 Mk II Colour Stereo
Monitor
PLUS Cables

£575

Diamond Word
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The ever pure, ever vigilant, ever frugal, ever Scottish
Stewart C Russell takes his monthly gander at what
astounding software can be had for nowt.

ABridge

DON'T you |ust love Standards?
Every other industry has stondards.
but only the computer Industry has
Standards.

Let me explain A standard part
will fit where it's meant to fit. and
work as it's meant to work,
Software, however, may say that It
will accept a certain Standard file
tormot. but the truth is. the
Standard format Is open to
different interpretations, creating
vast Incompatibilities which. In
theory at least, should not exist.

As one animation package
seldom gives the desired results, It's
often necessary to use several of
them, swapping files between
them if you want to use two
packages that speak slightly
different dialects of ANIM. you
have what is technically known as
a Problem.

To every Problem there's a
Solution - and that's not a solution
of alcohol In water. No. the solution
is Animation Brtdge (Ftsh disk 359).
which will Interchange files
between most animation
packages. Oh. alright, between
The Director. Sculpt-Anlmate 4D,
Photon Paint 2. Anlmagtc.
Videoscape. Animation Station.
DPaint III. Animation: Editor 1.11
and Cel Animator. Enough To be
going on with, anyway Even if you

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Amoeba

SOMETIMES, when things aren't gomg qurte nght in
my world, something reliable and simple, and
above all. ridiculously violent. Is required to get
things rtght again And what could be simpler than
Space Invaders?

No-one's quite sure why Space Invaders is so
much tun. Perhaps ft panders to the destructive sloe
of human nature. Perhaps It is fuel for natural
xenophobia Whatever it a. It's a wonderful way of

hammering the crap out of moving targets at no
personal risk, whatsoever

Amoeba Invaders is an old game, conceived a
considerable number of moons ago by The
LateNight Developments Corporation Nothing has
been added to the stark payability of me original
Torto machine, save for the addition of colour. After
all, the first Invaders boxes were strictly
monochrome, so It shows how tar we've come In
the last twelve years, as long as we discount
machines like the NeXT.

For those o' you who remember colour Space
Invaders, lhat was achieved by the technological
miracle of strips of coloured plastic stuck to the
monitor The Invaders at tie bottom started out red.
but the other ones went that way as soon as they
hit the red band And we go to all the bother of
copperlisfs to achieve the same. Sigh Call that
technological devopmenr?

To be realty pedantic Amoeba Invaders adds
the heady delights of a score that doesn't "clock"
at 10000 points. Talk about the march of progress.

The original source of Amoeba Invaders is Fish
Disk 120, but it's so old that nearly every PD
collection has it tucked away somewhere. Check
the bulletin boards too - It's pretty small so it
shouldn t break the phone trfl if you download It.

ortfy use DPaint 111. Animation Bridge
has something to offer.

DPalnl III has a habit ol filling
animation files with excess
(harmless) garbage like the remains
of old stencils and brusheB.
Animation Bridge will strip this out,
leaving the file up to 25% shorter.

In addition to Its easy to use
Intuition interface, there's also an
ARexx port which may be of use to
folk who routinely process
animations, and hate overworking
the mouse.

Better sti. if you send S20 to Ron
Tarrant and Mythra-mations
Animation and Software, you get
an Animation Bridge which doesn't

keep interrupting you and asking
for money.

Some day. all animation
packages will completely
understand one another. Until that
day arrives (and the sun sets m the
east) we'll have to use Animation
Bridge.

Mach II

l know a lot o( people who like to
have a clock on the Workbench
screen. I never use a clock myseH.
preferring Russell s Three Rules for
Healthy Uvlng. These ore: Eat If
hungry. Drink Coffee If ilred. and

Steep It nose touching keyboard.

Summarising atl the PD clocks
would be a huge and (utile task,
imagine - "This one tells the time
So does this one. This one likewise'
So here is something not entirely
different, but nearly.

There are many Freely-
Distributable programs which are
best described as Mouse-
Accelerating, Screen-Shuffling.
Window-To-Front, Auto-CU, Mouse-
Blanking. Screen-Blanking, Auto-
Window- Activating. Configuratlon-
Saveable Clock Utilities (With
Added Hotkeys). or
MASSWTFACLIMBS8AWACSCU(WAH)
for short. Some are big (tike Machll.

80 Amiga Computing

which tabes up 44k of disk space)
and some ate small (QMouse. just
over 4k). Most of them are quite
remarkably clever.

Machll (Fish Disk 254, unspecified
Shareware amount) Is quite the
most feature packed
MASSWTFACUMBS8AWACSCU(WAH)
available. In Its standard
configuration. It displays the time
and tree memory, alternating with
the dale, in a window m the screen
titlebar This window floats to the
top of the screen, and will even
float to the front screen. This Is
cheating Intuition a little, and it can
be disabled If problems occur.

One of the most thoughtful
features included In Machll Is its
ability to remember qualifier keys
<AH. Shift, Ctrl and the Amiga keys).
This means that instead of having
to press keys all together (such as
Ctrl-C) you can press them
Individually for the some effect
(Ctrl, then C). This could be useful
for those with impaired hand
movement, or Indeed anyone
who's ever experienced joys such
as Ctrt-Right-Amlgo-F5.

Configuring Machll ts pretty easy.
Hit the mouse Menu button In
Machll's clock window, and the
ouxHary SetMach program Is called
up. This presents you wtth a moss
(nay. a plethora, even) of gadgets,
each controlling a different
operational nuance. Vou'l need to
dive into the documentation to
work out what everything means,
so maybe configuration isn't so
easy after all.

If you don't like wasting space,
try QMouse. It has all the really
useful features of Machll, except
for the remember qualifier keys
routine It also has the smallest
clock around - It will flf between
the "Workbench release" and the
free memory display It's also under
4000 bytes long.

QMouse can be configured
using a long set of CLI arguments,
or by creating a conflg file with a
text editor. This may seem a little
unfriendly, but if you follow the
documentation It isn't a problem.

version 1 .6 of QMouse is on Fish
Disk 262. and there's a S10
Shareware fee. it's the sort of
program that a lot ot BBS's have,

M*f.fl» IVTODH

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Mandelvroom

HEY. oren'f those Mandelbrot set thingles real purty?
No? Ph8 E, Stein's, the lot of you. I happen lo like
them, but then I've always felt comfortable with
complex numbers, matrix maths and zero-
survtvablllty situations.

The trouble with most Mandelbrot ser generators
is that they expect you to be able to key in huge
quad-precision coordinates, and then they laugh
at you for ten hours while they render a screen ol
total blackness. Would it not be PDH (Pretty Damn
Hip. If you hadn't twigged) to )ust point and click on
your very own A To Z of the l -> (z'z)+C ?

Such Is MandelVroom 2 from Kevin Clague. You
never, ever need get your hands dirty wtth vast
floating point constants - nor do you ever need to
spend hours worting lo see rf you've turned up an
interesting bit of graphics, or a window full of block-
By creating a new window, and 'hen zooming
Into an existing window on the set. you get a rough
Idea of what your picture Should look like instantty.
since at first MandelVroom will merely magnify
pixels from The old window. Once you start

rendering, the picture will gam deta*.

Nor do you need to hang around white the
iterations are strutting their stuff. The program sports
optimised maths routines for extra speed, but wiH
render any number of Mandelbrot and Julia sets
simultaneously.

You don't get summat for nowt, so multitasking
slows everything down a little.

Extensive online help Is available on just about
every feature, so you won't have to read the huge
doc file. Many of the screen manipulation tools
work just Bee DPaint. so most people wM know what
to do with the Palette and Cycling toots.

Mandelvroom supports every screen mode
except HAM, and will auto-detect faster processors
and extra number crunching chips. The only thing
that you really must have Is I meg of RAM to use all
the functions, but It wil run (sort of) on a stock A SCO.

Intuition Is used really well - lots of programmers
could learn from this example. In fact, they can -
Fish Disk 214 contains all the C source, which is
reasonably well commented.

MandelVroom 2,0 is certainly the friendliest
introduction to fractal fun, and lives, along with
plenty of pregenerated Images, on Fish Disk 215.

and It cost me just over )0p In
phone charges to download the
Qmouse archfve over a noisy, long
distance phone line. Few PD
libraries can offer that kind of value
for money

SRT

HMM. Yet another "Replace
volume X In any drive' System
Requester. I wonder who thought
up that particular gem of popular
prose ? It may do the (ob. but It's
dull, so let's change it.

Huh? Change System Requester
Text? Most people, after much

ermlng and humming, would
conclude that, short of rebuming
the ROM. this kind of task is far more
difficult than H is urgent, and they
go back to their own Interactive
multlhypermedia devices.

But wait. A little System Requester
we've all met Is "Software error -
task held'. This has been known to
reduce grown writers to visible
gibbering, and Is unpleasant In
extremis. We might as well put in
some code to catch the Software
error, and render ft less harmful.

Carolyn Scheppner's SRT allows
both of these things. By creating a
text file of alternate Requester texts.
SRT will replace the boring CBM

ones with your own wacky
creations. The supplied example file
Is a little Mlddte-Earthish. wtth Trock
Trolls. Disks of the Clan of DOS and
captive Printer Dwarves.

You can change any text to
anything you want, it's best to stick
to something roughly sensible, since
"Error validating disk" maybe be
dull, but It has loads more
relevance than "Goo boogie acka
zacka".

If vou replace the dreaded
"Software error" text with "DEBUG*,
you get a full register dump the
next time an error would have
occurred You also get the chance
to suspend the errant task, or to

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task can do no further damage,
except that crashed CLI
commands won't allow the CU to
OiOH

Except for the Guru Protection.
SRT (JBAG 28) is little more than a
bit of fun. It alows the machine to
be customised the way you tike It.
and may also make your days less
fraught.

Memguard

EVER hod a totally reliable program
crash on you for no readily
apparent reason? It's kind of
worrying. It wfl often happen If you
try some new and possibly dodgy
software, then take a trusted
workhorse out for a canter. Whap
Bang, a face full of red he* with a
flashing border

Quite often, the cause of this Is
Low Memory Corruption. The first
few hundred bytes of memory
contoin some extremely Important
Information which the system uses
tor finding libraries and managing
interrupts. If a program sloppily
patches some system information,
then forgets to set them right, the
system will crash quicker than the
Stock Market.

A very well respected
programmer thought about this,
and wrote a lengthy C program to
scan this area for changes.
Unfortunately. It hogged 50% of the
processor time. What was colled for
was an extremely tight piece of
assembly language.

From the K-Seka assembler of
Raff Thanner comes Memguard Ilia,
which installs a small Interrupt
routine to check the low memory
for change. If a value is altered, an
Alert (looks like a Guru, but Is OK
really) gives you the choice to
restore or change the memory
location's contents.

What's really incredible about
Memguard is that it checks
memory every video frame (50
times a second) yet uses only 2% of
the processor's power. Since It's a
very low level Interrupt, using
ForoidO to hart multitasking won't
stop Memguard.

So now if you're programming,
or Just using software you're
unhappy about, Memguard will
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another you're asking for a visit
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Mandel
Mountains

ALMOND BREAD has a lot to answer
for, not least for Its nutritional value.
You see. In Germany. "Mandelbrot'
is that very confection. Imagine
going through life being called
"Almond Bread' - almost as bad as
■Russell" . Well. Professor Mandelbrot
certainly used hts loaf to develop hts
fractal theories.

MandelMountains. rather than

being a devious EC plot to stockpile
all those hard-shelled nuts, is a
Mandelbrot Set generator. Oh purv
lease, sez you, not another one.
Well, yes, It is. actually, but this one's
a bit different.

The standard view of the
Mandelbrot set looks like the
chromotograph of a squashed
bug. given a little Imagination -
black in the middle, with a set of
fringes which darken as they go out
from the centre. MandelMountains
uses o different approach - a 3D
block plateau with silvery
mountainsides sloping down from ft.
It's prettier to look at than describe.

This rendering technique (the

Continuous Potential Method) is
very processor-intensive. Not merely
do you have to do all the usual
convergence iterations, you also
have to do a bit of 3D trigonometry
to find out where the point should
live. And os you have to do this for
every pixel, one can settle down for
a nice kip.

The world always looks brighter
after a kip, and so the stupendous
MandelMountains screens are
Incredible - the CPM makes
Mandelbrot Sets and Julia Sets like
a zany torm of landscape.

Screens are saved as IFF. but wtth
an additional chunk to hold data
for MandelMountains. DPalnt will
Ignore this extra Information, but will
not save it bock out - so doctored
MandelMountains pictures won't
reload.

MandelMountains 2.0 Is well
worth Its 510 registration fee - if you
upgrade to a faster mochine. MM
will use the maths coprocessor. If
you like Mandelbrot sets, have a
hunt around Fish Disk 354 - you'll
Iterate until the cows come home.

Roadroute

IT IS nice to get from A to B. avoiding the Jam-
pocked dual carriage way at C. the sheep track at
D. and the section of motorway at E which has
been coned off since Hadrian's lads built It. So how
can you tel?

Usually, looking at a good roadmop will help a bit
- save tor the roadcones, that Is. The old method of
route planning Involved a little rolling wheel thing
which could be read off In mites, and the ability to
follow the wiggliest road wtth absolute accuracy.

For some years now PC and 5T owners have hod
AutoRoute. a deWghttuI program which will tell the
the quickest route to a reputable Amiga dealer.
AutoRoute's authors considered piracy too rife In
the Amiga scene to market AutoRoute Amiga, so
the pirates' loss is our loss too "Kill a pirate today' is
the moral of the story.

Jim Butterfleld. that guru of all things
Commodore, hod a need to work out his A to 8
without recourse to an A to Z. He produced an
AmlgaBASIC program to do the Job, added some
data from some motoring organisations, and
created Rood Route the First.

Like all AmlgaBASIC creations, the first RoodRoute
ran like a sloth in snooze mode\ After a rewrite In C,
RoodRoute Is much quicker - but hardly all singing,
all dancing. More l*e mostly barking hoarsely and
gallumphlng about In a vaguely syncopated

manner, but rt does work.

The other problem Is, currently all the maps refer
to the USA ond to Canada. All we need now ts for
some patient, kind soul to type In distances
between places in the UK and we're laughing.
Don't wait (or me to do this, as I hove all the
attention span of a caffeine-soaked shrew, and a
hideous disttce for conk: projections.

Roadroute doesn't draw maps, but then neither
do the Incredibly useful AA Computer Routes All
you do Is type a Start, an End and a Via. and
Roadroute will find the best way. It can either
choose the Fastest or Shortest route, and estimates
the time taken according to the US 55 mph speed
Hmtt.

RoodRoute is on Fish Disk 358. and Is Freeway, erm
Freeware. And don't let me stop you typing in mops
for Great Britain...

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Games

Utility

AMP3 - Graphics Pack I
Clip It! clip any pan of
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MCAD excellent CAD
package. IFF to piece*
jigsaw program. ROT 3D
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VI. 19 brilliant painting
program, Rav Tracer
Generator.

A 3 disk pack only £7,50.
AMP21 ~ Graphics Pack
2 - DBW Render a very
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Mandelhmt Explorer.
Excellent full features
mandelbrot designer,
ST:iFF convert Atari ST
pictures to Amiga IFF
format HAM Editor
drawing program. HAM
to IFI : convenor.
A 3 disk pack onlv T.SO.
FFISH 295 - Mandel
Mountains VI. 1. Mandel
Broi Generator.
FFISH 334 - HBM
is an image manipulator
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PDOM 90 - Tennis! iTie
best shanrwarc game on
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Requires 1Mb of RAM.
PDOM 79. PDOM 80
& PDOM 81 - Star Trek
3 disk game. Ama/lng
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Brilliant! Requires 1MB
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PDOM 215, PDOM 216

- Siar Trek 2 disk game.
Totally different, and even
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Requires 2 drives.
PDOM 233 -The lb. ly
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PDOM 234 - The
Golden Hceec Adventure.
PDOM 283 - Callisto,
Daleks. PonicMm, Puzz,
World & Zerg.

FFISH 327 - Msh

handles MSDOS/ST
lurmatted disks. You can
use files on such disks in
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way as you use files on
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This is a fully functional,
rcad/wnie version.
PDOM 62 The Public
Dominator Ami Virus
Disk contains all you need
in the light against viruses-
FFISH342 - IE Vl.O is
an icon editor up to
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dual render. Fully
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FFISH 244 - Boot
Block Champion V3.1
load, sjvc and analyze
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V|. 2 you specify The
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characters and the
scrolling text of upm 100.
PDOM 278 - LHAKO
V0.99a the file compressor
100% compatible with
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AMICUS 22 Printer
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TBAG 28 - Machll fea-
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Shuffler. CLodt, Alarm,
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TBAG 30 - MyMenu

create your own menu on
WB to run any comands.
Icon Meistcr V1.4THE
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TBAG 31 - ShoWiz V2.0
show ANY picture with
or without a script 1
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full, also play a music file
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PDOM 279-ESA utility
disk I the excellent
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Application Miscellaneous

AMPl - Home Business
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RIM and Hypcrbase data-
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APDC17 - 2 Micro
Emac editors; Micro
Gnul'itucs MicrtiEmacs.
FFISH 144 -
Analytical V22.3l>tsa
large fit powerful
spreadsheet program
requires 1MB RAM and
one floppy.

AMICUS 17 - Commu-
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FFISH 195 - Micro
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FFISH 219 - Deep Sky
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PDOM Clip It! Voll.

Nearly 3Mb of clip art in
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PDOM 211 NonhC
ihe latest all features
excellent C compiler.
Suitable for beginners and
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FFISH 337 - CManual
V 1 .0 is a complete C
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graphics, gadgets,
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1DCMP, sprites, etc.
Includes huge manual file
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FFISH 314 - A68k
v2M the macro
assembler. Excellent.
FFISH 339 - PCQ
Vl.lcts a freely
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compiler. The only major
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FFISH 349 Mi l)
V2.0 is a music editor
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AMP11 - 5 disks fullol

Soon files with the PD
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AMP23 - 5 disks full of
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PDOM 285 - Game
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PDOM 212 - Red Seem

CEBIT '90 demo.
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PDOM 213 - Rebels
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PDOM 214 - Fractal
Flight. Creased by
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Requires 1MB RAM
BRILLIANT!
PDOM 148 - Escape
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another amazing
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PDOM 1 - The Walker
Demo I is a mega
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PDOM 2 - The Walker
11 the inega mega
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FFISH 196 - Stunning
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Excellent! The quality is
astounding.
PDOM 27 - Alcatra/
Mega Demo II. Mega!!
PDOM 65 & PDOM
Red Sector Mega Demo
THE best demo on the
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PDOM 73 Star Trek
Enterprise Leaves Dock.

PDOM 74 -Star Trek I
animations of Star Trek
craft.

PDOM 76 - Star Trek ]
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PDOM 83 - Space Ace

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(I was In 19B7 that I first won-
dered what possible use you
could have for an advanced
authoring system for interactive
video. Microdeal had driven up
ftom Cornwall to show me an ST
controlling a videodisc player. In
which sat the original arcade
videodisc of Dragons La*.

"Oh yes", exuded the
spokesman, |there will be cheap
videodisc ptayers on the market by
Christmas, and you can buy the
controlling software and Dragons
Lair disc from us for only £100".

Three years later and videodisc
players have flopped. In this coun-
try. Apparently there ore sufficient
machines In the US to make It
worth Michtron's while to release
Viva there. In Those three years the
scope of Vivo has changed quite
dramatically, yet at heart if
remains a videodisc player-based

system.

Applications range from training,
sales promotion, simulations and
games, and as a general Informa-
tion distribution system. It contains
functions for controlling such exter-
nal hardware as videodisc players
and video recorders (including
genlock), as well as multi-tasking
and providing links to word proces-
sors, databases, drawing pack-
ages, animation packages (or
combinations like DPI"), video digi-
tisers and sound samplers. Of
course to do that you need quite a
lot of ram. and indeed, that Is just
what Viva expects you to have.

To use the package properly
you are advised to have a bare
minimum of 1,5 Mb. 2 Mb to do
anything useful, and 3 Mb to do
anything special. A hard drive otto
comes In handy since Viva stories
with extensive use of sound and
graphics gobble up disk space.

That's just to start developing. To
generate your graphics and sound
you're going to some of that hard-
ware and software I listed earlier.
Be aware that though you can
produce standalone applications,
the user will invariably need at
least 1 Mb of ram and two disc
drives to be able to use it.

The basic concept of Viva is that
of taking graphic screens and
sound effects, stringing them
together, and by use of text and
control commands offering the
user a series o options, finally pre-
senting information based on the
user's reactions.

If you have a videodisc player
connected then obviously you
have access to large amounts of
graphics and sound data. You
could, for example, take that

96 Amiga Computing

Hype and

hyperbolics

Duncan Evans tells us an audio virtual
imagery object (story), about Viva

W Visual hmractd Vidfo Aulhonnj fron M.chlron

■ nosiw i

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Th« afScti pan«t witti wxircei

Dragons Lair disc and demand
totally different solutions to the
problems within the limitations of
the graphics at you disposal.

The trouble fcs that m the UK there
aren't an awful lot of videodiscs for
you to use. the manual does help
out a little here as ft lists both man-
ufacturers of videodisc players and
suppliers of videodiscs in America.

Spinning a yarn

Actually programming a simple
Viva story couldn't be easier, as al
the commands come In the form
of icons. It Is simply a matter of
stringing them together on the
main screen, complete with
branches and loops where neces-
sary, to organise an interactive
story and Its special effects.

Unfortunately the function of
only a few of the rather garish
icons is intuitive, so careful study of
the manual is necessary, lo make
assimilation easier the Icon com-
mands are organised into function
groups thus: interactive (hot spots,

questions, timers), video (laserdisc
commands which are very easy to
use). Events (branching and
labelling). Audio (sampled sound
and music commands), Graphical
(covering .IFF images and the vari-
ous special effects), Text, (dbpiav
printing and sending text to the
Amlgas speech synthesiser).
Mathematics (operations on vari-
ables - useful especially for simula-
tions and games), and System
(access to compute* system func-
tions and other Viva stories).

While organising a short story is
easy enough, for anything interac-
tive or slightly more complex a
great deal more consideration
needs to be shown.

Most programmers I know don't
use flow charts. Just lots of paper.
For a moderate size Viva produc-
tion l m afraid that flow-charting of
some sort needs to be done
before starting. While you
can delete and insert icons at win,
If you don't have a clear Idea of
what you are doing when you

start.the story may work but it will
do so m a haphazard fashion,

A Viva work screen has pull
down menus along the top; an Info
bar which constantly tells you how
much memory you have left and
the number of icons used, a story-
board on which the icons are
orTanged, and at the bottom o *st
of all the Icons In whichever func-
tion group happens to be open.
Going back up to the pull down
menus, these cover mundane
functions such as disc access, run-
ning the program, executing o
wordprocessor. animation pack-
age, art package, sound sampler,
video digitiser and database. Now
you see one of the reasons why
you need so much memory.

Viva offers none of these extras,
you need to create everything
used in Viva from some other
source There is the facility to cre-
ate some text from within Viva
though, but this Is only a couple of
words that can be overlaid on a
graphics screen. For anything more
you do need that wordprocessor
Considering how easy It would
hove been to Include a rudimenta-
ry text processor and art package
this is a little niggardly .

Also on this top bar are the
defaults which cover where the
program expects to see Its data
corning from. These are set to DFO
initially, and can cause trouble
when you load In a storyboard
from say. Ofl.. It loads In a* right,
but when you try to run the story
the program reports a File not
found error, simply because it is
looking at the wrong drive (or its
data.

Initially an icon representing
each of the function groups is pre-
sented along the bottom of the
screen, being reploced by the
actual commands when you click
on one. The most commonly used
function group will be Graphics, so
lets have a look at what you can
do.

LOADPIC and SHOWRC are fat-
ly obvious In their functions, but
SHOWPIC can also be used to sim-
ply clear the screen by assigning
the screen colour zero as an argu-
ment. The special effects thai con
be performed on your newly loos-
ed picture Include a checker!
board effect (spiralling In or out),
pushing the old picture off with a
new one. fading to block, revedl
ing a picture as If it were pamtedl
on vertical blinds, slowly rotaflnfj
until the full picture was shown!
that old standby the dissolve, and
a four directional wipe which rob J
new picture over the existing one, 1

An interesting feature Is that If
you have genlock and superim-
pose a computer picture com-
pletely over the top of a video
picture, then using a fade, dis-
solve, checkerboard or push com-
mand with colour zero as an
argument would reveal the under-
lying video In a fairly Impressive
manner.

Error in the system

One dreadful feature of Viva are
the error messages. Unfortunarery
an otherwise helpful manual has
neglected to list and explain them
Thus: Screen size not equal to
page size, which is what happens
when you try to load a 320 x 256
res picture, could be taken to
mean a variety of things: The
screen you are loading, the screen
size of the Vrva environment, or the
screen size of a screen you
defined with NEWSCREEN at the
start of your Viva story ?

this tends to happen a lot with
other aspects of Viva, making It
easy to program, but hellishly diffi-
cult to sort out |ust why things
aren't happening In the way you
think they should. Going bock
to the NEWSCREEN command, the
manual states that tha is primarily
used so that the SPEECH com-
mand can be used effectively.
Setting up a screen with less than
eight colours Is required for decent
speech.

The odd thing is that the stan-
dard vivo screen is of course 320 x
200 {as it is American). The manual
recommends this and 640 x 200 or
400 as your standard resolutions.
Unfortunately the NEWSCREEN
command only lets you set up a
screen In variations of 320 and 640
horizontally by 256 and 512 verti-
cal/, or the English standards

Anyway, as soon as you have
decided to load and play around
with a picture, the appropriate
icons appear on the main story-
board. Clicking on the Icon reveals
o further level of Interaction. You
can move, edit, delete. Insert,
copy or test the icon.

On the special effects
icons.rhere Is o speed of comple-
tion setting which you can experi-
ment with by repeated testings,
until ft meets your requirements.

In the spirit of real programming,
the Events functions allow you to
use labels In order fo implement If-
Else. Do-Untll. While, Goto,
Masterloop. Return, and Break
commands. The philosophy here
being that it may be a collection
of pretty Icons, but It should still be
structured property

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The other function groups offer
scrolling text, a number of different
fonts, mathematics so that Interac-
tive applications con be devel-
oped - logical operators, variables,
constants. Inc. Dec and the usual
maths operators - the playing of
sampled sounds, various Interrupts,
hot spots, keyboard scans and
timers, configuration of the serial
port, as well os reading and writing
to It and. of course, control of a
videodisc player. The commands
for this are as easy as using a VCR
at home.

A typical viva application rather
resembles a HyperCard applica-
tion on the Mac. as a series of con-
nected screens with audio effects
containing Information are pre-
sented ki accordance to the user's
responses and interaction,

Simple simulations and educa-
tional material can be produced
with o lot of effort. At this point
you'll be looking fo the printer
option which will list out the func-
tions of the Icons and what they
are operating on

I have to say that if all you are
going to do Is produce material
which strings together graphic
screens and sounds together in this
way then perhaps you'd be better
off with a copy of AMOS, os If Is far
more powerful, but then obviously
It Is harder to use.

Deluxe Video Is the other alter-
native which springs to mind If you
toke up the option of using gen-
lock to mix computer and video
signals, though you can produce a
more interactive production with
Viva than you can with Deluxe
Video. Where Vivo really shines is
when you get hold of a videodisc
player and videodiscs, mix in some
computer graphics and realty daz-
3e the audtence.

Viva really works on three levels,
and only on the last one does It
excel On the other two there are
alternatives on the market which
ore both harder and easier to use.

Whether the program s memory
and hardware requirements are
worth meeting Just so you can use
the package is dependant on the
application you have In mind.
Though It can certainty produce
good results, sometimes very quick-
ly and easSy, Viva can also be very
fiddly, ot times unhelpful, and sim-
ply not have I he scope to do what
vou want It to do

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FLASHDISK! Is o shareware floppy
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Amiga computer. Including the
Amiga 3000. It Is no) a cache - It
merely reorganises the information
on the disk to make directories and
loading more efficient.

The changes are permanent
and will usually increase the
loading speed ot directories
between three and five times, the
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CHIP HOGti This option, when enabled, fells FlashDiskl
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It Is not advisable to use this option If you plan on
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If a verify error occurs FlashDiskl wW report the
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not be useable. Try if again

source disk and try again.

You may also notice thaf
FlashDiskl can be very picky about
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Run FlashDiskl from the
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pul the program Into a directory
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tool. CU users may find It easier to
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the source and destination disks by
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Destination: headers. Select the
optimisation method: Directories,
Loading, or MegaFlashl Select any
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Format, and verify.

Once you hove chosen the
options that you desire, moke sure
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You may slop FlashDiskl at any
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hitting Ctri-C. sending o Break to its
process, selecting the close gadget
of the window, or pressing the
Escape key. At times, there is a brief
pause before terminating, but
nothing unreasonable - it depends
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Project

Save

Directories: Mokes the directories as
fast as possible, which Includes
placing the Vinfo files In the best
location for Workbench users. This
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Workbench users.

Note' After optimising, leave the
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Megaflash. Does anything and
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Copyright

FLASHDISK! v0.3 alpha B shareware,
Copyright © 1990 NlteWlngl. Any
donations would be more than
appreciated (any amount). For
various reasons the author cannot
offer upgrades or any other
Registered User policies. He will,
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Send donations and comments
to: Curtis J Palmer, c/o NlteWlngl
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0thello1.18

AS you have already guessed, this
is a version of the classic board
game Othello, said to have been
Invented last century In England.
Some absent-minded person then
forgot about It until It was re-
discovered In 1971 by Goro
Hasegawa. It was named Othello
when his father, who studied
Shakespeare, noted how quickly
the board can change. |ust as the
situations In Shakespearean plays
often Oo

This Is not a thrllls-and-spllls

Optimisation methods _

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Gribit

GRIBIT is three programs In one - a
game, a sprite editor and a
screen editor. The game can be
played as It stands. When you feel
that you want to make some
alterations, the sprites can be
altered with the sprite editor and
the screens amended with the
screen edrtor.

Alterations can be made
permanent by saving them to
disk, so moke a backup copy
before playing around. All the
necessary files are In the Grlblt
drawer, so you need only drag the
drawer to another disk to back It
up.

An option screen Is displayed
after loading the program . The
first option Is G for Game.

Gribit is played with a Joystick
plugged Into the hole next to the
mouse port. To complete each
screen you must collect all the
mushrooms. Sounds easy enough,
but some are locked behind
doors.

To get through a door you need
to collect a key Where do you
get the keys from? Well, if you
remove the red squares, by

running over them, oblects will
start to appear. Apples and
cherries win increase your energy -
that's the green bar at the right of
the screen,

Bonus points are awarded if
your energy reaches the top of
the screen and you still have three
lives. If you have less than three
lives, an extra life Is awarded
instead of the bonus.

Try to avoid the purple frog as
contact with him drains your
energy. The purple frog can be
stopped with a bubble. To blow
bubbles press the fire button, To
pick them up again just move over
them. If the purple frog collides
with a bubble he gives up a key

If you (the green frog) collide
with the purple frog a key and
some energy Is lost. If your energy
level reaches zero, a life is lost. If
anything falls on your head, a life is
lost.

The P key will pause the game.
To continue press the Fire button or
any key. Pressing the Escape key
quits the game and takes you
bock to the options screen

The second option on the
options screen Is S. to edit the
screen. Select sprites from the top
row with the left mouse button.

Any of Grlblt's IB screens can
be loaded, edited and saved
again. Redesign the whole lot
and you've got yourself a brand
new game.

Then place them where you want
them on the screen, again with
the left mouse button. Screens
can be loaded or saved from the
pull-down menus. The Options
entry In the left-hand menu quits
the screen earl or and returns you
to the options screen.

Sprites can also be edited by
choosing C from the options
screen. Select sprites from the
bottom row with the left mouse
button. The edit box will
automatically update. The pull-
down menus allow quick
alterations Scroll left, right, up.
down, Xfllp, Yfllp, Rotate. Fill and
Erase

Colours con be selected by
pointing and clicking. The bottom
colour is the drawing colour. Save
on the left-hand menu saves all
the sprites. Options, as you know
by now, quits the editor and
returns you to the options screen.

No doubt after playing Gribit,
Basic programmers will be llchlng
to know how ft works. Double clck
on the Gribit. B AS Icon to view the
listing. If you wont to customise the
program In any way - or more
likely borrow some of the routines
- you'll need to decrunch the
source code first. You'll find the
Decrunch command In the C
directory of the cover disk.

Copyright

GRIBIT was programmed in HiSoft
Basic by Alan Mead and is
Copyright © 1990 Amiga
Computing. Gribit should nof be
Included for sale in any public
domain.

Project

Scroll Copy

If you don't fancy the Idea of being a frog all
your life, lake quick visit to the character editor
and change your identity.

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frog chase you then hold down the fire button lo
lay a trail of bubbles.

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version oT Othello — There ore no
sound effects or fob graphics.
Stuart Bain, who programmed it,
wonted this version to be as small
and unobtrusive as possible so
there would be no memory or
multi-tasking problems. Crunched
tt tots up to under 2500.

Othello Is very easy to ptay
because it has only one rule. It is
played on on 8 x 8 board with

black and white counters. At the
start of a game, two counters ot
each colour are placed in the
mtddte of the board. Black has first
move,

The object Is to place a counter
of your own colour in an empty
position In such a way that at least
one counter of the opposite colour
is trapped between It and another
counter of your colour, in any

direction The trapped counters
then become your colour.

Note that you can flip in several
directions at once, so The board
can change dramatically in only
one move.

in each Turn The player must
always flip at least one of the
opponent's counters. If this cannot
be done, the turn o lost

The game continues tn this way

unti the board is fufl. until all of one
player's counters have been
flipped, or until neither player con
play. The winner Is the player with
the most counters - unless it is a
draw, of course.

This version ts very easy to ploy.
After clicking on the icon, the
board will appear In its starting
position. The window has normal
gcdgets to allow closure, dragging

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MED v2.13

MED Is a music editor. If you've ever used
Soundtrocker. you " know what one of those is
and you'll feel right at home with MED. if
Soundiracker meons nothing more to you than
a word you keep seeing In Amiga magazines,
then you're gomg to have to get your thinking
cap on and prepare your mind for a new
concept

The odds are you've alreody loaded MED
and. provided you didn't get In an awful mess
because you didn't know what you were
doing, you've probably had a good took
around already.

Don't let its apparent complexify put you off.
Even If you've never played a musical
InsTrument In your life I can guarantee that
you'll be able to create some stunning Tunes tn
no time at aO usu>g MED

Let's start by loading a demo tune.

The first thing MED does on running is ask you
for a drive name. Click on the button which
relates to the dnve you nave The cover disk in.
probably DFO:

Next, using The rite requesfer arrows, scroll
down the CD01J list and click once on the
MED2 1 3 directory entry (directories ore In light-
grey, files are m black) After that directory has
loaded, click once on the DEMOS oVecTory

There are two tunes in DEMOS, the one
we're interested In is 5ong24 so c*ck once on
that and then click once on the Load Song
button to the right of the file requester.

After a short wait the tune win have loaded
You'll see aN sorts of things happening on the
screen. Don't worry about them. It's Just MED

letting you know it's working

Before we go any further let's decide on
what each part of the MED display is called so
we can avoid confusion later.

The display at top left with the file requester
and the tood/sove/drlve gadgets m is called a
control panel. There ore 10 ot these control
panels related to the 10 control buttons at top
right The control panel we're looking at right
now Is the Files Panel.

The big area below with all The numbers in
(that's the music!) Is called The block display
This is the area you'll use to compose your
tunes in between the block display and the
conTrol panel is the status bar.

So let s have a listen to what we loaded
Click once on Play In the double bank of
buttons at top right. The control panel will
change to display the Play Panel Find the Play
Song button, take a big breath and c8ck on It.

The notes under the hlghBghted bar are the
notes currently being played. It oil moves very
fast and it oil looks very complicated. But
persevere, because In a while I'm going to
show you how to compose o short tune.

A tune written with MED Is made up of
blocks. The demo tune we're listening to
contains 19 blocks, numbered 0 to 18. In the
Play Panel, at top left directly under the MED
logo, you'll see a short 1st of five numbers, one
under another. The middle number, the one
highlighted, is the block that's currently being
played. This list, by The way, is known as The
playing sequence kst (PSD.

If you watch carefully with the tune playing
you'll see That many blocks appear in the PSL
more than once - they are repeated Once
a block Is composed you can repeat It

anywhere you like in the tune simply by
inserting its block number In the PSL at the
correct point.

A block contains a number of lines for you to
enter music on The default is 64. although This
con be adjusted to any number beTween I
and 256. How quickly notes get played
depends on the setting of the tempo
proportional godget (the slider bar at the top
of the Play Panel).

OK, let's compose a little tune.

Select the Mlsc control button, click on Clear
Song Onry and then click on OK. What we've
done Is cleared the tune from memory but left
the samples It was using behind so we con use
Them to compose our own tune.

Click the Sample control button and then
click The » gadget in the Sample Panel until
'strlngs2' appears in the gadget above It.
Strings2. which you'll notice Is sample number
8. is now the current sample

Before we con make sweet musk: together
we need fo tell MED that we want to do some
editing, and we do this by clicking on the E
button on the status bar When editing Is on.
the E is highlighted. So do this now. Right we'll
start with channel 0 on the left. Vou should see
a red rectangle (Ihe cursor) In the block
display next to The number 000. if not. hold Shift
and press the up arrow key to get to the
beginning of the block.

Here comes our first note - press the letter P
once and let go. lust os If you were playing a
short note on a piano. You'll see the display for
channel 0 change to took Hke this:

1=000 E-3 8000

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of depth-shifting.

The game waits till you click the

left button once before starting
play, so that If the Amiga Is first it
does not immediately play on
loading. To place a counter click
once on the centre of the square
where you wish to play. If the move
Is legal, your counter will appear
and the trapped counters will be
tupped over. If it Is an illegal

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position, nothing wfll happen.

After a short pause to otlow you
to review the new board situation,
the computer wfll moke its reply If It
can. The score line at the top
Indicates the current number of
counters as well as Ihe players'
colours.

When the game is completed
and the result displayed click on
Restart for a new game.

For the technically minded the
source code for Othello vl 18 Is
included on the disk. It has been
crunched with Powerpacker
Doubte click on Its icon 10 view it.

If you wish to customise the
program in ony way — the
weightings at the end of the Bring
may be of particular interest — you
will have to decrunch the source
first. You'll find The Decrunch

000 Is the line number, E-3 Is the note we
entered (the note e from octave 3) The 8000 is
a bit tncky. aM you need worry about for now is
that the 8 is the sample number - sftings2 is
sample number 8.

As you pressed P you heard the sound of the
note. In fact, you're still heoring If because
5tnngs2 has been set up to repeal. Press 'he
spacebar to stop the note playing.

Now use the down arrow key to move the
cursor (the red rectangle) next to Ine numbef
006 and press O. move down to 008 and press
L (Don't forget, you con press the spacebar if
you want to to stop the noise.)

Got the idea? OK. now look at Figure I and
enter the rest of the notes tor ttio block Note
that next to the line numbers in figure I are the
keys you should press, not what ts displayed on
the screen. Also note that the figure only shows
the notes you should enter, leave all the others
blank.

01 2 U 0 1 6 P 022 O 024 1 028 U 032 V 040 P 048 O

When you've ftntshed select Play Block from
The Play Panel to hear what you've done. This
block needs to be played twice methinks, so
stop the music and click once on the down
arrow next to the PSL (the playing sequence
list) and then click once on the ♦ button. Vou'l
see another CO appear In the Kit.

Now for another block. Get to the Block
Panel and click on New Block Press Shltt-
downarrow to get the block display to show
the new block.

Now to enter the notes for this block, which
you'll find In Figure II You've got the Idea of
entering notes by now. so I won't pontificate

Having entered the notes for block 1 go
back to the Play Panel and add this block to
the end of the PSL so that the 1ST reads 00, 00.
01.

000 Q 002 W 004 E 006 R 012 E 016 W 032 Q 034
W036E 038 R 044 E048W

Select Play Song fo hear what you've done
(spacebar or 5top Playing to stop).

At this point it may be wise to save things,
just In case of accidents. Select Flies, put a
data dsk In DF0 . select the DF0. button to let
MED know you've changed disks, click In the
File string gadget, type in a filename, dick on
Save and then on Save Song. You'll be
presented with a requester asking which
format you want to save it In. Choose
Song 'Samples

Get back to the beginning of block 0 by
pressing Shift-uporrow. Now press fhe right

arrow key until the cursor is over the ' — * of
the first line (000) of channel 1 . Make sure
editing Is on (the £ in the status bar should be
highlighted) and press the Q key Now do the
same thing for channel 3 on the far right.

Press Alt-spacebar to heat whot you've
done (Alt -spacebar is the hotkey sequence for
Play Block).

Press Shift-downarrow to get to the start ot
block l. Move the cursor over the " — " ot the
first line of channel 1 and press Z. Do fhe same
for channel 3 Press Shift -spacebar to hear
what the whole song sounds like after we ve
odded this background hum. It's got a bit more
body to it. no?

Right, the last thing we're going to do Is use
a oouple more samples to add a bit of
percussion. Get back to the beginning ot block
0 (Shlff-uparrow) and move the cursor over the
'•> — " of the first line of channel 2. the only
channel we haven't used yet.

Now get the Samples Panel up and click on
« until you reach popsnare2 (sample number
4). Now press R and you'll hear the sound of 0
snore drum and F-2 will appear In the display
for channel 2 next to the line number. 000.

Scroll down the display and odd the same
snore drum note (key R) to channel 2 on Unes
016,032 and 048

Now click once on « in the Samples Panel
to moke bassdrum3 the current sample Move
to line 014 In channel 2 and press the E key.
Add further boss drum sounds on channel 2 to
lines 030. 046 and 062

Press Alt-spacebar to hear the block as rt
now sounds.

All we have to do now is odd the percussion
track fo block l To do this we'll use a MED
shortcut Stop the music and make sure fhe
cursor ts in channel 2 (I assume you are still in
block 0 - If not, gef back there this minute!)
and then select the Block Panel. At top left
you'll see some cut/copy/paste/swap buttons
for both track and block.

What we want to do Is copy fhe current
track In block 0 (fhe one with the cursor In) to
channel 2 m block I . So click on Track/Copy
Now move to block 1 (Shift-downarrow). Notice
that the current track is stfll channel 2. Click on
Track/Paste. You'll see an F-2 appear at the top
of channel 2 proving that the track has been
pasted In,

That's It. The song's finished. Press Shift-
spacebar to hear It Roger Waters eat your
heart out (oops - don't be nasty to Roger, he
has good lawyers).

Ot course, what we've done here Is a very.

Samples

THESE are no samples provided with MED on the
cover disk, except Ihoie contained within the
demo tune SongM. If you want, and you probably
will, you can save out those samples as separate
files using Ihe Sample Panel In MED.

Prelfy soon though you'll be wanting more.
Where do you get them? Your best bet Is to phone
your local PD pusher and osk him. He's probably
got thousands of samples on various Soundlracker
disks

01 course, you could always Creole your own
by using a sampler. This has fhe odded advantage
that your tunes will sound more original because
Ihe listener will be listening no) only to a tune he
hain't heard before, but alto to a collection ot
samples he hain't heard before.

The third method of getting samples Is lo
borrow them from other tunes. To do this you'll
need something called a 'ripper" Again, contact
your locol PD pusher

If enough of you write in demanding them, we
might be persuaded to put a few on the disc in the
future

Copyright

MED V2.13 li Copyright 6 1989,1990 Teljo Kinnunen
It has been released as shareware, which means It
you use the program regularly you should ease
your conscience by sending a small donation to
the programmer, if you don't want fo send him
coih. a present of some kind alwayi goes down
well.

Funny money, boxes of biscuits, bug reports,
questions, helloi and anything else you like to:
W/o Ktnnunen, Oktanlle 19. SF-66300 Outalnan.
Finland.

very, simple fune MED ts capaole of <l>far<D>
greater things. The more you play wifh, the
more you'll find out about it. Do read the
documentation a few times etse you'll be
mosing out on some of fhe special features.

tf you get really stuck you con always write
to TeifO Kinnunen. the programmer. HB address
ts in the Read Me file In the MED212 drawer
(He's stll at school so give the guy o break if
you don't get a reply for a while.)

But I reckon you'll soon get the hong of It.
Before you know It you'll be sending me tunes
for the cover disk

Amiga Computing 1 03

command in The C dkectory of the
cover disk.

Copyright

OTHELLO vl.lB was pf ogrammed In
machine code by Stuart Bain and is
Copyright © 1990 Amiga
Computing. Neither Othello vl .18
nor Its source code should be
Included for sale in any public
domain, shareware or freeware
disk libtary. Pink Floyd don't hove
the monopoly on good lawyers

Fame or Fortune

We ate mote than happy to pay
large sums of money for some of
the outstanding and professional
contributions we receive. At the
same time there seem to be very
few authors in this country who are
prepared to launch their woik as
sharewore.

Countries such as the U.S.A..
Norway. Sweden. Canada and
Germany are constantly turning out
excellent utilities that put a lot of
commercial software to shame.
What do we have to offer In this
country?

Send your submissions to: The
Disk Submissions, Amiga
Computing, Europe House.
Macclesfield. SK10 dNP

Pipes of
Lost Time

DECEMBER'S tune of the month Is a
moderately-sized piece of musk: in
the pop-cum-medieval-cum-
heavymetai-cum-madrlgat mix.
Don't ask me to explain that. It will
all become apparent when
listened to.

The tune came to Its composer.
Nicholas Heaps, one night when he
had decided to produce
something realty outlandish. Luckily,
the results worked. The whole thing
took Mm about a week to finish
ana It recently won the Electronic
Music category In a school music
festival.

Nicholas uses on Amiga 500 with
1 meg of rom. Had he only had
512k. he would not have been oble
to create this song, but the final
product runs on a 512k Amiga. If
the the tune falls to play, close
down all unnecessary windows
(don't forget the CU one) and try
again.

Nicholas also has two fairly large
speakers and a television plugged
Into the Amiga. There are three
annoying things about his

television: It's not a monitor. It gets
upset and starts displaying rainbows
because his speakers are so close,
and there Is a single cell on the
screen that doesn't like the colour
blue. Strange.

Sound Advice

Are you a budding musician looking

for fame and fortune? If so, perhaps
the Amiga Computing cover disk
can give you a little push up the
lodder. You never know who might
be listening to your music. For
Instance, Howie Davies got
commissioned by a software house
after Rock The House appeared on
the cover disk.

Original or classical stuff only

please, preferably In self- contained
modules

If you Insist on sending
executable tunes, then try not to
send the kind that freezes the
mouse pointer or uses the left
mouse button to quit; right button
or both Is better tf your tune needs
a separate Play utility, please
Include that on the disk as wen.

QCal

QCAL displays a calendar of the current day.
month and year. It then allows the user to display
any day/month/year with the mouse, and recall or
input an entry for that day

All changes and additions will be saved in a file.
QCal. dot, In the current directory when the
program Is ended, or when Save is selected.
QCal dot will be created If missing.

This Is stating the obvious, but I'd better do so
anyway otherwise Green will come round and
bash me in again - QCal will only work correctly If
you have a battery backed-up clock fitted In your
Amiga, Ike the one in the A501 memory expansion.

If you haven't got a battery bocked-up clock,
you will need to use Preferences to set the correct
day, month, year and time before running QCal
Refer to your usef manual for Instructions on using
Preferences.

QCal can be started form CU or Workbench, If
you specify the -c flag from CU (run qcal -c) the
calendar will display a clock. The clock can be
switched on or off by clicking on a hidden gadget
In the top right-hand comer of the window.

To add an entry, select day /month/year by using
the mouse. Click In the display box at the bottom of
the window, then add your entry when the cursor
appears. You have two lines In which to make your
entry. Press Return at the end of each line to finish

The day number will then be highlighted in a
different colour.

To display on entry, select day /month/ year by
using the mouse. Any days which have an entry will
be highlighted in a different colour. The entry for
that day win be displayed In the box at the bottom
of the window.

There are a few gadgets to play with Most are
self-explanatory ,but a few that could do with
clarification:

PURGE: Deletes any entries that are before the
same day of the previous month. For example. If
today was 23-Jun-99 and you selected Purge, any
entries on the 22-May-9° ond before will be
deleted.

SAVE: Saves all entries to a file called QCai.dat in
the current directory. All entries will be saved
outomatica&y when you quit QCal If any entry has
not been saved.

YEAR: CBckmg with the left mouse button on the
arrows will change the year +/- one year The right
mouse button w* change the year +/- 10 years.

Copyright

CAL was written by Malcolm McDonald and is
Copyright © 1990 Amiga Computing. It is freely
distributable so long as no money whatsoever
changes hands. QCal should nof be included for
sale In any public domain, shareware or freewore
disk library.

□I QCal vl.8. Friday 5th Oct 1998

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Ma

HMM

b n business The entire corpo-
I rale mentality Is towards
■ expansion, without wnich the
financial machine cannot sur-
vive. Marxism was mostly based on
the philosophy of the eventual col-
lapse of this system when expan-
sion could no longer take place.

It is obvious that the anorak dto-
tator. the coding Mussolini should
also feel The need To expand.
More often fhan not these needs
express themselves as an A 590 or
second floppy drive - The odd
Trapdoor hatf - meg being the only
concession to expanolng ram.
So why do so few people

Addressing the refreshing topic of
memory expansion,
NicVeitch rams it home.

expand beyond the 1 Mb bound-
ary? Why are people willing to
spend large amounts of their dis-
posable Income on magnetic
media, dlgitlsers and omer techy
gizmos of The age and very little on
expanding their system?

The reason a twofold. Software
manufacturers are reluctant to
bring out a product tor which there

is a fairly exclusive market. For this
reason you won't find many appll-
caTlons that require more than
512k let alone 1Mb. This doesn't
mean Thai This software wouldn't
be greatly enhanced by using
more memory, just that the market-
ing guys behind it don't want to
restrict the* consumer base

Of course this doesn't mean

thai these applications do not
recognise extra memory when
they see it. Most do. and It can
always be used as backing store If
nothing else. The point ts that many
teatures may be restricted
because they have been
designed to work In smaller
amounts o' memory.

The second reason is that it is
boring. Vou spend a huge amount
of money on a gianT memory
expansion and what happens?
The tittle number on top of the
Workbench screen goes up a bit.
No floshlng lights, no spinning
wheels or funny noises (well, not rt

Amiga Computing 107

you connected It up property)* Not
much scope for pulling the
girts/guys there then.

Why do I need it?

Well, vou don't actually need It.
Nobody needs extra ram unless
they have a specific task that
requires it. and this is usually limited
to the smon number of people who
actually make a living from their
machine

The potnt Is it makes a whole lot
of tasks a whole lot easier, tasks Is
a key word here. One of the things
thai sets the Amiga aport from
other 16-blt machines Is the fact
that Amlgodos can handle true
multi-tasking - not (ust tosk-swap-
plng as on the Mac and the PC ,
but tasks running simultaneously -
you can format a disk and use
Pretext at the same time.

Mum tasking a great, but obvi-
ously each task, takes up a certain
amount of memory. Imogtne trying
to run DPointlll and ProPoge at the
same time. WeH. with about three
megabytes It is a viable proposi-
tion, though you'll have to watch
out for your chlpmem

This Is another factor to be taken
into account when looking at
memory expansion. Generally for
most applications the critical factor
is not how much ram you have in
total, but how much chip ram you
have.

Chip ram Is Ihe memory which
can be directly accessed by the
custom chips through their DMA
channels. It is. therefore, the only
memory that can be used lor
things like screen displays, sounds
and other DMA-intensive actrvrry

Expanding the total ram of your
system will help oievlate this prob-
lem since programs will be able to
fit In the fast ram, leaving chip
memory available for more impor-
tant tasks.

If you have a Fatter Agnus there
Is a possibility ol expanding your
chip ram to 1Mb. Usually this will
require some modification to the
A500's motherboard. 1hus invali-
dating your warranty

What's about?

Essentially there are two ways to
expand your memory First there B
the old favourite trapdoor method.
That is. after all. what It's there for.
Originally designed to accept the
A501 half-meg expansion, there
are now quite a few larger varieties
about.

The alternative is to expand, nat-
urally enough, through the expan-
sion port This has the advantage
of being much easier to achieve

1 08 Amiga Computing

liwde the Cortei e«ponvon unit Hare we have a fully populated board

(or offlood If for some reason you
wish to disconnect the ram at a
later date).

Following slightly along these
lines, many external peripherals
which connect through the expan-
sion port alow for memory expan-
sion. The A500. CBM s hard drtve Is
one example which allows tor up
to 2Mb In half-meg steps. Similarly
the update to the vertex conttc*et.

Let 's have a look at two ways of
expanding your memory to mythi-
cal levels.

Cortex

The Cortex . trom Memory
Expansion Systems, (s probably the
best example of an expansion port
type addition.

Visually unimpressive, the unit is
a squate box which fits snugly in
the expansion port the uninspiring
outer cose Is broken by only three
stunning features

The first Is the blanking panel for
the through slot. To open this you
wll have to remove the screws on
the underside of the unit. This Is not
particularly difficult providing you
have a brain and a cross-head
screwdriver.

There is nothing in the universe
more annoying than the lack of o
through port, except perhaps the
tendency of Volvo drivers to cut
out In front of my GPz550

Imagine the scenario Vou have
two |o*y useful, Jolty expensive thin-
gles that need to be connected to
the expansion port. Both are
tonfabulous. but would be truly
mega-fobby It you could use them
together But you can't, simply
because the manufacturer want-
ed to save a few quid.

In this respect the Cortex unit
excels, having not only a through
port, but also a blanking panel to
avoid the embarrassment of not
being able to use it If you don't
have any mote expensive periph-
erals

The other two notable features
are a Jack socket for the accom-
panying power supply and a little
light that comes on to tell you that
everything is mellow and just don't
worry about it. everything's fine.

Why an extra power socket?
Wei. CBM have a bad history with
PSUs. Around 20 percent of the
CWs returned in the early days
were due to power supply units
having burnt out. The Amiga PSU rs
far more rugged and tenable - reli-
able, that Is. for powering the
Amiga and perhaps a few external
floppy drives When It comes to
hard drives and 8 Mb of ram
leaching of your Amy you may be

In trouble.

There ore some people who will
maintain that they have memory,
hard disks, floppy drives, genlocks
and so on running off their A500
with original PSU with no problems.
They will probably hove a higher
percentage of unejfplalned gurus,
dtt errors and other nastiness. If In
doubt, pump if up. and that's
what the Cortex allows you to do

The unit contains slots for eight
1Mb SIMMs. In other words you can
have 2. 4 or 8Mb but not the
stages in between, it can be a bit
of a nuisance not being able to
add ram in small chunks. Snce the
ram is on a SIMM card you can
onry use SIMM cards. No more bar-
gain hunting at shows for cheap
I t-.p-

Aside from that, it works. What
more could you want from a ram
card? It Is even A 1000 friendly

Adram 540

The Adram 540 from ICD Is a trap-
door expansion Not your normal
hotf-meg job though. The AD540 is
expandable. In blocks of 1Mb- to
4Mb. tf that s«l isn't enough, there
is a daughterboard option to bring
your fast ram even further into the
lofty heights of truly elephantine
memory (yes. more than 64kl>.

The snag with all this messing
about in the trapdoor is (as Berk
would tefl you "there's something
down there") that It is lust thai -
messy.

For a start the board is a little too
big to fit properly A little handy
work with a scalpel Is required to
make the ttopdoor see eye to eye
with your new piece of lot. Then, of
course, you have to remove the
shielding - not that it mode much
difference anyway.

Since the memory mopping is all
done through Gary, and since he
isn't expecting to find 6Mb tn the
trapdoor, a Wile piece o! hardware
B supplied to make him look In the
tlghl direction.

A board has to be fitted to sit
between Gary and the mother*
board. This isn't too tricky .since
those people at CBM have put all
the important stuff In sockets - an
the better for whipping ft out. A rib-
bon connector connects the Gary
board with the expansion card.

tf you want to take advantage
of a Fatter Agnus, or it you wish to
install The A560D - a daughter-
board which gives on extra 2 Mb
ram - you will have to get out The
soldering Iron and do some nerve-
wrocklng stuff.

A Kimper teod must be connect-
ed between the Gory board and

Feature

The cortex li supplied with a test dirt and o lew Inlefesting samples

The cortex test software also Includes a certain amount or trouble shooting

■

\m KD Inc. ttiltftH to Exit

■

The tetl utility »uppl»d with Ihe ICD board Is less impiesswe. but II worttil

a vacant jumper hole on The A50O
moTherboard. This Is slightly haz-
ardous for those with the DTs, as
the hole is situated between the
68000 and the Amiga torn

Once Installed, you can safely
forget about It - there is little
chance of it giving any trouble
The only boThei Is the fact that only
1.5 Mb of ram wHI auto-configure,
the rest will only be mapped In
after running the supplied soft-
ware. This Is fast m execution, and
can be neatly tapped on to any
startup-sequence ,

The teal advanTage of this
method Is the fact that once
installed your Amiga looks abso-
lutely the same There is no prob-
lem with you useable desk space
suddenly vanishing, and you won'i
have to engage In major surgery
to be able To use yout mouse in
your left hand.

There Is no additional power
supply for This model, but rt Is highly
recommended That you buy an
upgraded PSU IT you are using
mote peripherals lhat draw their
power from your Amy.

So what do I buy?

There is no answer to this question.
At least. noT one that will prevent
Irate phone colls from thousands of
readers willing to extol the oppo-
site case.

The getout wimpy answer is that
It's up to you. But of course It Is.
Adding rom isn't just a question of
buying some chips and plugging
them in. Vou hove to look at the
way your system Is going to
expand in all directions

It would be too bad to spend a
lot of money on one system only to
find out later that you couldn't use
It with some other peripheral you
desperatery wanted

For example, the Adram wil still
allow you to use external auto-
configure ram. like the chips you
can plug into the A5°0. but obvi-
ously you can't use it with the KCS
PC board, which has to fit in the
trapdoor

The rom expansion should be
The malleable quanTlty. Lei The
decisions about other peripherals
determine which expansion you
buy.

Carle*

Memory Etponiton Systemi

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Escape from Reality

Feature

Just as your favourite mag is due to be
at the printers, Nic Veitch tries to
escape the slings and arrows of
outrageous publishing by retreating
into a world of his own

Texture mopping expand! me realm ol raytractng into one of near photorealism

THERE hos been o lot ol talk
□bout the prospects of virtu-
al realities In the future and
about how Amiga technology Is
at the torefront of these develop-
ments. Maybe there's been too
much talk. Virtual reality Is not a
dream of the future - it Is with us
here today, and In fact, has been
for some time.

Virtuol reality Is a term which
can be applied to many comput-
er software constructs ft Implies an
Interactive simulated environment
which would certainly be satisfyed
by say. a 3D maze gome or even
a flight sim. But it Is not only in
These alternative realities that we
already have development.

There is a lot of interest in con-
structing a virtual reality analogous
to our own. that is. a complete
reality as close as possible to our
own but under our control

Real developments began to
take place in this field with the
arrival on the international science
scene of a concept known as
chaos theory Some high level sim-
ulation of real world variables wos
reauired to explore 'he ramifico-
tions of this discovery.

The quest for reality through arti-
ficial data was well supported in
the area of graphics too. The aspi-
ration was to produce a photore-
alistic simulation of a landscape
that onfy existed in ihe data banks
of a computer.

While It is a matter for philoso-
phers to mull over how it Is possible
to Judge the apparent reality of a
display, for Ihe common man it is
easy to see that at the moment
we are as close os makes no dif-
ference All he has to do Is watch
some of the computer generated
adverts that assault us every night
on the TV.

Do we need to Justify this
attempt at control over the reality
we inhabit? Well. no. Not really.
But that never stopped anyone.
Roy 'racing packages, it is argued,
are a great aid to visualisation in
design work. That may be true, but
In my experience all the pretty pic-

tures were produced after the
design was more or less finished. In
fact. If a designer hasn't got a
pretty good Idea of what some-
thing looks tike before rendering
then he shouldn't have been
given the Job in the first place.

Its real use Is communicating
this information to others less tech-
nically minded. Or for creating
almost photorealistic images of
Imaginary - and therfore alterna-
tively real - scenarios. Or for hav-
ing fun with.

The point? Ray tracing pack-
ages, like little girts, need no justifi-
cation. They are also quite moody
and fairly unpredictable, but I'd

belter not say any more or we'll
get letters

Real 3D

A few months ago if you were talk-
ing ray tracing on the Amiga you
were talking Sculpt 3D. Now there
Is a choice. Two months ago we
saw the release of Marcam's 3D
Professional. And now we have
Real 3D from Active software.

There a a certain attitude that
seems to prevail in terms of ray
tracing on the Amiga, to the
effect that Sculpt Is the standard
against which aH others should be
Judged. To a certain extent, since

It has been the only major selling
ray tracing package In this coun-
try, that view Is valid, but It would
be very unwise lo odopt standards
Just yet.

The reason for this is that Real
3D works in a way fundamentaty
different to Sculpt's approach.
Sculpt considered each surface as
being made up from small triangu-
lar flat planes. Every surface con
be approximated in this way, the
number Cand therefore the size) of
triangles used determining Just
how much deviation there would
be between the true surface and
this approximation

The approach of Real3D Is to
consider each surface as Just that,
a surface In mathematical space.
Only when It comes to the actual
rendering is this surface quantized,
broken from an Infinite landscape
Into finite chunks of picture defini-
tion.

The advantages of this method
are easy to realise when you see
your first picture. Gone are the
angular surfaces that were so
characteristic of anything pro-
duced by Sculpt. Added realism s
the bonus.

It also makes the components
easy to rescale. In Sculpt when an
object was created it was neces-
sary to give It scale by defining
how many points were to repre-
sent the shape This meant if that
object was used larger at a later
date the triangulor planes would
be cleorly visible.

If a lorge number of points were
specified originally, to account for
later changes in scale, this would
result in higher rendering times for
that obfect. no matter what size ft
was used at Clearly an undesir-
able compromise would be nec-
essary. So we see that early on,
although the Inevitable compar-
isons will be made to Sculpt, the
approach is quite different .

Design

The design area, where all the seri-
ous mucking about and coffee

114 Amiga Computing

Feature

drinking goes on. will be familiar to
anyone who has used a CAD or
ray tracing package.

three views of the "landscape"
are presented, in wireframe form,
arranged In orthographic projec-
tion. If you like, each view is a win-
dow on to the design area from a
different plane, one tor each of
the three dimensions.

Each object must be designed
either from the extensive range of
primitives, or using one of the tools
(which we will cover later).

A primitive is a representation of
a simp*© object such as o sphere,
a cube, a cone or whatever Any
shape or size of building block
which Fisher Price have ever man-
ufactured is represented In some
way or another. Each of these
objects can come in any size or
colour,

Complex forms can be created
by combining these primitives, tn
addition to simply placing the
objects so that they connect up.
Real 3d allows a full complement
of Boolean functions to be per-
formed These include ANOIng,
ORing, XORing and most other
combinations you can probably
mag i no

The use of primitives - or prims -
ond the additional abBlty to com-
bine them logically with other
objects lends itselt to an engineer-
ing form of design The operations
performed on the prims are very
much akin to the kind of shaping,
milling and forming that would go
on in The workshop.

The windows can be resized to
facilitate the positioning of small
objects, and in fact the entire
screen can be given up to the
view from one window. Since most
design work is usually and easily
accomplished In two windows I still
find It difficult to believe that no
one hos ever included a "view
two windows only' option.

The co-ordinate system can be
switched from absolute (x-y posi-
tion from the origin) to relative (x-y
position from the last selected
point). Judicious use of the Amiga-
arrow key combination Is called
for to accurately position the cur-
sor, unless you have a remarkably
good mouse or a remarkably
steady hand.

The wireframe views themselves
can also be modified There are
good reasons for deleting wires
from the view of an object In
complicated ones in can often be

The wit •frame preview from a circuttboara erf oil

And heie a Ihe finished product Perfect ptesentatlon graphics

a lot easier to work out Just exactly
what Is going on with a few less
wires hanging around it also
makes the screen refresh a good
deal quicker.

Tools

In addition to manipulating prims,
objects can be made using o vari-
ety of fools. The most useful of
these Is undoubtably the lathe,
which is m some ways better than
the real thing

Having entered the position
and orientation of the spindle a
profile line can be drawn, this pro-
file ts then rotated around the des-
ignated axis to give a solid object,
it is possible with this tool to bring
the workpiece to a point any-
where along the spindle (which In
real life would hove the work flying
across the workshop at 600 r.p.m.).

The rectangular and cylindrical
tube tools will allow the designer
to flow a tube of defined cross
section along a profile line. These
two are very useful for creating
everything from handlebars to
choirs.

Lostty there's the pixel tool. Any
IFF can be read In and converted
to a selected object, ideal for ren-
dering that corporate logo or por-
trait of your good self.

Hierarchy

This Is one of the most impressive
features of this package. Also
objects are created in a hierarchy.
This means that, for example, If
you were to create a stool you
could either have the object
grouped as : seat, legi. Ieg2.leg3
and Ieg4. or as seat and legs,
where tegs was a lower hierarchi-
cal level.

There may not seem to be
much difference at this stage, but
supposing I now want lo make all
the legs green. In the first example
I'd have four operations to com-
plete, one for each leg, whereas
In the second example I could do
the some Job in just one operation,

Saving and keeping large
libraries of objects also becomes
more feasible. You could use the
choir in any one of many potential
scenarios so ft s nice to be able to
identify that os one component of
a scene.

Hierarchical systems will save
you effort and headaches every
time, but you must use them prop-

Amiga Computing 115

erty. A cenatn amount of thinking tt
required to plan out your object
before you lay mouse to window.

Macros

Macros, short sequences ol auto-
matically executing commands
are well supported In Real3D. It 1$
often necessary to repetitively per-
form a series of operations, 'or
example, creating a row of 10
copies of one object.

This is where macros come In.
Start recording, copy the object
and move it. Now successive oper-
ations can be performed by the
press of a button. Not only is It
labour saving but It Is more precise
than trying to do the operations
manually.

Materials

In order to create a true photoreal-
istic representation of a scene,
account must be taken of the dif-
ferent light-affected characteristics
of certain types of material.

Glass, for example. Is almost
completely transparent, and yet at
the same time highly reflective,
whereas metallic surfaces ore
reflective but not In the least trans-
parent.

A whole range of materials
come pie- defined with Real3D but
you are at perfect liberty to design
your own It you see tit Sliders con-
trol the brilliance (reflectiveness),
transparency and "speed of light"
through the substance.

The speed of light is actually
referring to the refroctive Index of
a transparent body, the measure

A piionerewjue landscape planned (above) and wiieftamed (bttOW)

of how much light gets bent as it
enters. It is possibly to choose a
refractive index for above any that
actually exist for any material on
this planet.

Materials may be merged,
saved and loaded at any time, but
remember to load the right materi-
als before you start fiddling around
with a scene. Fortunately the
materials con be stored as sets, so
you can tie In the name of a range
of materials with any particular set
of scenes you ate working on.

The bending of light through
objects Is quite useful. It is quite
conceivably to create a working
lens using real 3D. though calculat-
ing it's focal point may be a little
tricky.

Although light Is bent when
passing through transparent
objects no account is taken for the
different frequencies of light.

This means that you rather unfor-
tunately won t be able to recreate
the album cover from Dark Side of
the moon - a prism will only bend

white light in Real3D, it won't spH ft
Into a rainbow. Still, it does allow for
some very interesting (and realistic)
optical effects

Textures

Another feature, which every
tracing package but Sculpt seems
to have. Is the ability to map an IFF
Image around the surface of on
object and so give It an apparent
texture.

All varieties of IFFs can be used,
from 2-cotour to HAM and any we
you care to mention. A whole set
of different mapping methods
opens up a whole range of possi-
bilities. If you were to scan in a
map of the world and use a "bal"
projection on to a sphere you
would have a globe.

These textures con otso be used,
obviously, to grve apparent deplh
and detail on the surface of on
object, where it would be impracti-
cal to Include this detail by way ot
adding many small prims.

Wireframe

The wireframe preview mode
allows you to take a quick look at
the positions of your objects before
you commit yourself to a full ren-
der Also In this screen are controls
to adjust the apparent perspective
of the scene (If you Ifte. the focal
length ot the lens on the camera
you are using to take the picture)
and It's magrOflcation

The wireframe is invaluable, easy
to use and so quick, even with
many objects to display, that It Is
scarcely believable. Where it reoty
comes into Its own Is In the preview
of an animation.

A near enough 20 frames per
second animation should let you
see how the finished article will
look.

Rendering

there are many options m the ren-
dering phase. Fast wll provide you
with a more complete idea of
exactly what is going on. By the
way. calling It fast isn't that mis-
leading. The time taken for a sim-
ple screen Is quite astounding.

Some fairly cunning routines ate
at work which octually make the
time taken more predictable. The
rendering speed is less dependant
on the number of objects or how
many light sources there are. The
lampless mode will autolight the

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Feature

area, giving you an Idea of wnat
everything is going to look like
before you decide on the dramat-
ic lighting effects to use.
Unfortunately, since the brightness
of the lamps ts not adjustable,
these effects ore quite difficult to
obtain.

Lam pi ess mode will also map In
any textures used, something that
would be left out In fast mode in
ihe Interests of speed.

Normal mode will take into
account shadows, transparent
objects and textures. In fact nor-
mal Is the highest quality rendering
you can get. For realty excellent
results you can add dithering,
shading and turn on interlace
mod© Machine parts and metallic
sculptures always look better using
the grayscale option.

The two remaining render
modes are shadowless, which Is a
bit self-explanatory . and outline,
which win do some interesting hid-
den line removal for you. though
quite slowly for some reason.

Backlight control, colour and
brightness are selected from a
senes of sftders Beneath these are
the resolution controls. It ts possible
to render an Image faster by using
big chunky blocks Instead of pix-
els, but this is only really useful
when used In conjunction with the
Box feature.

Real3D wHI use all of the memo-
ry ft can get hold of m an effort to
speed up rendering. In foct even
the beginner version requires at
least 1Mb. I have 6.5Mb Installed
on my system - Rea)3D is the only
software so far that has used ovef
95 per cent of thatl

Boxes

A jolly handy thing Is the box.
While on the render screen a box
can be drawn around any area of
the screen. Selecting Fill Box from
the puB down menu wil render the
data only in this box.

This Is Incredibly useful It, say,
you are only changing a detail in
one small part of the screen, or for
an animation where al the motion
occurs in a box which Is smaller
than the total screen

It can also be used quite stun-
ningly with the resolution control
on the mam panel.

Animation

Real3D realy excels in the anima-
tion department. Spline orbits for

Some "Ofideiful ellects can be created wllti ohodowj

The <Mik again, wllhotrt Ine wood lecture

the observer, the aim point or for
any of the objects can be drawn
and the resulting frames will be
automatically calculated by the
software

This means that once you have
completed your master design for
a new house, city or universe, all
you have to do Is specify a path
through It and the software will
take care of Ihe rest.

Stroll through the wireframe pre-
view and make a few adjustments
and you are ready to render the
lot in one botch On the render
master control panel turning off
the single option and adding a
filename In the box provided
means that every frame In the cur-
rent animation file will be ren-
dered.

Not only that, but it will be
saved to the pathname specified
as numbered frames. These can
then be loaded Into the replay
facility, or even into a completety
different package, since they are
plain IFFs.

In reality

is It worth It? As ray tracing goes,
and I've yet to find anyone who
makes a full-time living out of ray
tracing on the Amiga, this is cer-
tainly one of the best packages
around at the moment.

If after reading all that you're
still not convinced .work out how
many games you could buy with
the same money You think it's a
lot? I reckon you d spend more
time creatively designing and
enjoying the world of Amiga
graphics with this spackage than
you would playing twice that
number of games.

Ihe Sculpt scenario won't hop-
pen again. The next version is
already underway, with 24-bit
colour Image support. Roy tracing
Is becoming the cult scene on the
graphics circuit again, with more
packages being released across
all formats than you could safely
wave even a small stick at.

What Reai3D may lack In cer-
tain aspects of image quality it
more than makes up for in speed
and ease of use.

Mere, at lost. Is ray tracing for
the masses.

Reviewed Peai3P Professional
Active lOftware/Amlga Centre
Bp Scotland

Tel:03 1-557 4242

Amiga Computing 117

HOW often have you mut-
tered _ Who writes the
music lor these things. I
could do miles better than that, If
only I had the gear while you
wotted tor a game to load?

Well now it's time to put your
melody where your mouth is and
piove your point with Mugician, a
professional standard music pack-
age based around good old
Paula, the all-singing ail-dancing
sound chip.

No doubt all the musos out there
ate )ust about to flick over to
the next page, thinking that any-
thing that is not dedicated to Midi
is not worth bothering with .

Fact is, they'd be sadly mistaken
- the games and demos scene
coutd do with some new musical
Ideas, and Mugiclan could well
help meet that chalenge.

ft, like myself, you are a musician
but not a programmer, struggling
to bring your great ideas to elec-
tronic lite. Mugiclan could be a
godsend. With it you work with
samples - Including yout own -
which can be manipulated and
Incorporated into your own pro-
grams.

Also featured is simulated syn-
thesis, with which you can create
sounds from their component
parts, designing your own wave-
forms and adding various effects.
These sounds can consequently be
saved for later use.

Making sounds from scratch,
even with Mugician's aid. Is still a
difficult business, and it's a good
Idea If you are a beginner to use
some of the sounds provided until
you become more practised As I
mentioned earlier, this is o profes-
sional utility and will take a novice
o while to master It.

This is what you will be dealing
with:

Song Editor: The first screen you
will see on loading win probably be
the last you will use. This If where at
your hard work of creating sounds
and consequently patterns is put
together inio sequences to pro-
duce your final four channel mas-
terpiece

The Instrument Editor: This is
where the first 31 of the possible 63
sounds con be produced via syn-
thesis, or in my cose blind chance.
Ail the parameters requlied to
design sound are available, plus an
effects editor which is excellent for
creating weird and wonderful
sounds (great for games) The main
advantages of using waveforms
are their efficient use of memory
and. of course, the effects avail-
able to manipulate them.

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Feature

Mugician

State of the art or sleight of hand?
Paul Austin pulls the latest music
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Where you construct youi final masterpiece

The Sample Editor: Here is where
the other 32 possible Instruments
can be loaded In sample form.
They are held In one large buffer
one behind the other, which can
then be zoomed in on and various
editing functions applied.

Looping is available, plus the
ability to load IFF sample files, like
those created with Aegis
Audiomaster or any of the samplers
featured in last month's issue.

If you have a parallel type sam-
pler - not a joystick port model -
you can use your own samples with
the program, which Is happy to use
samples of various totes and
lengths, dependent on available
ram

The Pattern Editor: Once you
have amassed the sounds you
require It's time to write a classic -
and this Is where it all starts.
Patterns work In step time, each M
steps long, and up to 255 separate
patterns can be edited for use *n
each song. The finished patterns
can then be formed Into songs in
the song editor.

The monual suggests that you
should read it at least thtee times.
This is very good advice - take Itl
Each ot the above sections could
warrant a small novel In itself.

A more detailed review of the
program features would have left
both of us a good deal older ana
you probably none the wiser. The
best way lo learn with a program
Ace this Is by experimenting

The manual also offers a
Programmer's Corner which con-
tains some assembler routines so
your songs can be used Indepen-
dently of Mugician. for Instance m
games, demos, and so on. Basic
Midi functions are available but
external keyboards are not essen-
tial

Without doubt Mugician was
produced more with the program-
mer in mind than the performance
musician. There are quite a few PD
packages for Ihls area of tune
composing, but this package has a
more professional feel to it. The
remarkably useful synthesis facility is
something you wiH not find in any
of the Soundtraker clones

Tht Digital Mugiclan
SofteyM (0754)117261
429 99

This may not be ont for □ beginner, but
for a serious user who wants a all pur-
pose music and FX package. II could be
ideal.

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MACHINE CODE 121

The way to the heart of any hi-tech machine is at the lowest level possible So
reckons Jolyon Ralph, the thinking man's guide to all things 68k. This month he
looks at a useful book and explores the world of 'rippers'.

CODE CLINIC .. . 125

Any Soundtracker/Nolsetracker clone is only as good as the samples it
sequences. In this enlightening article Paul Holmes explains how to tell a tune by
its cover and how to take the wrapping off. IFF style.

MUSIC 129

Jason "Donovan" Holborn delves once again into the music world. Among the
scores of snippets he uncovers this month are new versions of MusicX and that
old chestnut that's been around almost as long as he has, Deluxe Music.

COMMUNICATIONS 133

Once again Armitage prepares you and your system for entry to the electronic
reality that permeates the very ether. Grid-locked on. decked up and with
clean sox you are now ready for the alternative real world.

J« DESKTOP PUBLISHING ..137

The archaic Nic Veitch attempts to get up to date with some of the radically
new concepts in the world of DTP - without mentioning those nice people at
Gold Disk (well, almost).

BUSINESS 141

Paul Austin, the man who is to money management what John Major is to, well,
money management, picks up his penny and his briefcase to discover that
there is some finance software worth the interest,

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Books, bugs and an easy way to create your own
tunes. Amiga Computing's resident guru Jolyon
Ralph continues to investigate everything 68k

Amend of mine phoned me o
couple of weeks back to
rave about a new book.
"Mapping the Amiga' published bv
Computel books. He said that since
getting it he hos not needed to touch
his collection of Abacus and Addison-
Wesiey reference books.

Coutd the vastly expensive and sev-
eral thousand pages worth of Amiga
programming manuals really be con-
densed into one £20.95 book? This was
one I had to check out,

Scanning through the book reveals
short - half page on average -
descriptions of all library calls, all sys-
tem structures (Exec Base for example),
and every hardware register. Including
all the fiddly CIA registers that no one
can remember properly.

-How does ft cram all of this Into 446
pages you may be asking? Well, It Is
basically a reference book. It Is not
intended as an Introduction to Amiga
programming

Although It does include an intro-
ductory section on how to use library
calls In Assembler. C and Modulo 2. this
ts only 12 pages long.

There are explanations of how things
l*e Copperllsts, the bbtter. sprites, etc.
work hidden throughout the book, but
they are arranged in order of hard-
ware registers, not In an order that
beginners could work through easily

The outcome is that the book ts
very sensibly arranged for people who
already know the Amiga well. The long
explanations of the birtter. and so on
are ideal memory fresheners', but I'd
recommend another book, either the
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual
(Addlson-Wesley) or The Amiga System
Programmers Guide (Abacus) for peo-
ple new to Amiga programming

For experienced coders the book Is
briliant. Every hardware register Is doc-
umented In order. No more looking up
what Sdff016 6 In a table, looldng that
up In the index and then reading
about what rt does. Just scan through
the book for Sdff016 and the informa-
tion Is There at your fingertips.

With library calls things are even eas-
ier Before you would have to look up a

routine through several different
tables, then finding out It is a Dos
library call which Is tn a different book
by a different publisher! All library carts
and structures are Wed alphabetical-
ly.

I have several times In the past
given up with the old manuals when
trying to find something like the
RastPort structure Information. With this
book I found It in seconds.

The hordware registers are excel-
lently documented, the Library and
Device calls are well covered, but a
book of mis see could not hold a* the
Information there Is about on these dif-
ferent calls, so you may still find the
official reference guides are useful.

In conclusion the book is brilliant |
don't know how I ever survived with-
out rt now. Not the best thing out for
beginners, but If you've mastered the
basics and need a decent reference,
this beats the Amiga System
Programmers Guide hands down And
it's £12 cheaper tool

Danger UXB

Something not so wonderful may be
happening in the not Too distant
future Remember oil the score stories
of Amiga viruses living In battery-
backed clocks? Remember rumours
of viruses that could destroy your
Amiga?

Now. with the akJ of the new ECS
chipset on the very latest Amlgas -
cutrently only fitted to the 3000. but
available soon for all Amlgas - It ts
possible for a virus to blow up your
monitor!

I'm not going to tell you exactly
how to do It in this column, that would
be stupid, but the new Dentse chip
hos to do some special tricks to be
able to produce the new video
modes, and If you fiddle with these
you could send signals to your monitor
that could damage t.

What If you write a program that
crashes and just happens to write to
the wrong hardware register? Just

make sure your code keeps dear o'
any register above Sdff Ibf.

The 68000 is a fast processor. In fact
compared to similar speed chips
found In PC clones, it's very fast. Not
as speedy as a RISC chip (extremely
rest), but you can't have everything.
Still, there's more than one way to skin
a cat. and there's n point using a fast
processor and programming In
machine code if your routines are not
as fast as they could be.

The obvious way to do something is
not necessarily Ihe quickest. For
example, to clear a data register - dO
for example, the instruction CLR.L DO
may be the obvious choice to many
of you. However, that takes six clock
cycles, and the less-obvious MOVEO.L
#0.D0 only takes four cycles.

There are several of these single-
Instruction level substitutions you can
use to speed up you code, but that's
onry part of the story. Take the follow-
ing routine, to move a block of mem-
ory 1000 bytes long from memory
pointed to by aO to memory pointed
to by a I :

move.l #0.00
loop: move.b (oO),dl
move Dai. (al)
odd.l fl.oO
odd.l ii.oi
add. i tl. dO
cmp.l HOOO.dO
bn« loop

Now, I've gone over The top with
that routine. No one with any know-
ledge of 68000 would write a routine
as bad as this, but the Important point
is that the above routine works. IT is
perfectly valid 68000 code

Let's try optimising this routine.
Firstly, look at the four lines after the
LOOP: command. They can be
replaced with a single me :

move.b (oOK(al)»

Now took at the rest, the first and
the last three lines. They can be
replaced by a DBRA loop,

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r,. . ! ,b (»%> ,oA
add I Hl.afc

So our final code is;
move.l (WW.dO ; DBRA loops fw D0>1

times.

move.b(oO)+,(ol)»
dbra dOJoop

Isn't that a lot simpler? And faster.
Ignoring the loop, the original code
would take 64 clock evetes per byte
transferred, the new version only 12.
This Is a good example ot how to
speed o routine up by recoding with
taster equtvelant commands.

However, the method Is still the
same, take a byte at a time and slick
It Into the next address. The next level
ot optimisation depends on rethinking
the whole opproach to the problem.
Why move a byte at a time when you
can move tour?

move.l t249.d0 ; 250loopi 250 x
4- 1000)
loop: move.l (a0)*,(al)*
dbra dO.ioop

Now. the move.l (aO)+,(al)t m this
takes 20 clock cycles, you have to
add on 10 bytes tor the loop, but as
you are only catling It 250 times
Instead ot 1000. It is much foster (7500
cycles compared to 22,000 cycles for
our Improved byte transfer routine, or
88.000 cycles for the original routinel),

This gets block moving down to 7.5
cycles per byte. There Is a faster way,
250 lines of move.l (oOH.(alH Thlsisa
bit daft for memory reasons, but if
you really need the speed, it shifts at
five cycles per byte You can improve
the performance of the routine by
putting more than one move.l tn the
loop, for exampte:.

move.l * I24.d0 ; 125 loops (125
xfl - 1000)

loop: move i {aO)+,(al)+
move.l (aQKtal)*
dbra dO loop

I'm not saying this is necessarily the
fastest way to do it, In fact I'd love to
see a faster rouxlne (68000 only, no
cheating with the blitter please!).

If you wont to shore your fast rou-
tines, be they block moving or any-
thing else, send them to me. Got a
fast multiply or divide routine? Have
you sussed hex to decimal conver-
sion? No doubt I'll cobble together
some rorm of prize for the fastest rou-
tines in various categories

Rip it up and start again

Have you ever loaded up a demo
and thought "I like that music, wish I
could rip H" Have you tried one of the

public domain music rippers with only
limlled success? The reason is that
most demos clear the memory on exit,
or the module is Immedrately overwrit-
ten In memory by something else load-
ed in. quite often the music ripper.

Now. the Action Replay cartridge
from Datel doesn't find Soundtrocker
modules for you, but with its help you
can hunt down and rip the tunes with
ease.

For this trick, you will need one
Amiga 500 or 1000 with at least 1Mb of
memory, lan Action Replay cartridge,
a blank formatted disk, a sensible ver-
sion of Soundtracker (Pro-tracker, or
Nolsetracker VI. 1 or above) ana o
decent soundtracker ripper (the latest
Fraxlon ripper, for example) or Rossi s
public domain Amlga-Mon or prefer-
ably both

Power up your Amiga, and when It
prompts you for a disk press the Action
Replay button, from the Action
Replay screen press F°, if necessary, to
get rid ot the German keymop. Then
type ZF0 to disable your fast memory.
ZVD to disable virus testing and ZMO.to
disable cleaning ram on reset.

Reset your Amiga again - this Is
Important, It dfcables the fast memory
- and boot the disk with the tune you
wish to rip. Wait until the tune 6 playing
then press the magic button.

Now - and this Is the clever bit -
type LORD OLAF on the cartridge
screen, and It will Inform you that
Sysop mode has been activated. This
wfll aBow you to read and write to any
area of memory, including the previ-
ously protected cartridge ram. and our
disabled fast memory. You can even
disassemble the cartridge.

What we can now do Is copy the
entire contents of chip memory,
including the module, into fast memo-
ry, which, as It has been disabled, can-
not be overwritten by a soft reset, or by
loading other software In. This Is done
by typing

i o 7fm cooooa

(assuming your fast memory lies at
ScOOOOO. os all AS01 compatibles do).
Now reset agorn and load your music
ripper. Tell it to hunt In fast memory,
and with any luck It shouia find your
module.

If you haven't got a ripper, or It
can't find tt. you have to resort to the
manual approach to hacking mod-
ules. Using either the Action Replay
monitor itself, or better stl. Amiga Mon,
the public domain monitor, hunt for
the string M.K. (M dot K dot) In memo-
ry, This stands for Mahoney & Kaktus.
the authors ot Nolsetracker. and all
Nolsetracker modules (voper cent of
demos use Nolsetracker modules)
carry this stamp.

Code Is the way lo me heart of the machine

This Is near the beginning of the
module. Hunt backwards in memory
from this point and you will see the
names of all the Instruments (for exam-
ple ST-04:borlngbas5drum) and at the
beginning the name of the song.

Starting from the first character of
the name of the song, save out a
large block of memory to disk. 300k Is
usually enough Call It mod.somethmg.
so you can load tt Into Notsetrocker. If
you've used the cartridge monitor to
save this file out. you will have to
FDOStoDOS convert it first.

Now. reset the cartridge and the
Amiga back to their default settings.
The quickest way is to power off your
Amiga for 10 seconds and power It up
again. Load up your Nolsetracker
Protracker and load In the module
you saved. Save It back t disk again
immediately, and It will save It as the
proper size.

Play ihe module. If It works, you ve
successfully ripped the module. If not.
tn/ again I must thank Alex Slater tor
his help in preparing this npplng yarn,
and he hosn't even got a cartridgel
(Ahem Datel?)

Jot to Jolyon

Have you got a problem with your sprite
routine? Is your assembler giving you grief?
Are you fiddling with Ihe wrong bits In
SdlfOiO? Or have you written some mind-
shallerlngly tost rouline to calculate the
average airspeed ot art unloden African
swallow to 20 decimal places?

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Paul Holmes takes the wrapping off a
sampled sound file to see what's inside. If
you want to hear what he is on about, check
this month's Amiga Computing cover disk

WE stopped oui look at IFF
tither obruptly lost month.
,ust before we got to a
rather exerting bit on SMUS chunks. So
let s tejotn the action.

A SMUS chunk has seven standard
chunk types - SHDR. NAME. Copyright
C(c) *), AUTH. ANNO. INS1 and TRAX.
It may also contain embedded
Instrument forms - hopefully 8SVX, but
they don't hove to be. Descriptions of
SMUS standard chunks can be found
m the Exec manual App.B pp.53-62.
and are not given here.

NAME. Copyright, AUTH and ANNO
are treated as text, as m 8SVX

The SHDR format Is Just like VHDR. In
that it is case-Insensitive, but fussy
about order.

53484452 00000004 397C7001
SHDP. 9lp

appears as.

SHDSl ;iize-4
tempo 14716
volume 112
hacus 1

I

INS1 chunks come In three flavours
_name(type 0). MlDKtype 1), and
general type. The last of these Is
unlkeh/ to be used, and If so I've no
Idea what for. but It's provided for
flexibility.

494E533I 000OOOOF 01000000 46656E64

Fend

65725374 726I74O0 erStrat.
494ES331 00000004 05010307

INSI..

and

494E533) 00000004 040940FF

INS1

ore equivalent to:

INSH : n»zi5
register I

name "FenderStraf

I

Mill ;«e-4

regiiter 5
MIDI

channel 3
pteset 7

and :

INS) | ;it:e=4
register 4
TYPE 9
data! 64
dara2 255

Note that the zero on the end of
"FenderStrat- is just a padding byte,
not a terminating zero, as the length of
the string (9) is just the chunk size (15)
minus 4

All three INSl formats are order
critical. Mnemonics like -name" or
"preset - are cose Insensitive, but the
contents of strings like -FenderStraf will
be copied with case Information
preserved, as this Is likely to be
demanded by application packoges.

TRAK chunks are the most
complicated, and their format reflects
this. Each event has its own mnemonic

inst 2 use the Insfrumenl in register 2.
time 3/4 use 3/4 time in score,
keys Db me 0 flat bey signature In score,
volume 127 full volume. Figure may be

0..I27

mldlchn 5 set MIDI channel 5
mldlpre 34 set MIDI preset 34

As the above ore events, not fields
« a data structure, they may appear
In any order, and any number of times
throughout the track. Not all music
packages will accept a keychange
mid-score, but there's no law against It.

Notes and rests have the format:

<notespec> m m (<tuple>) Cd') V

<vafew>

where:

<notespec> = (<notexoctove>) Trest'
<no»e> - *C" I I "D" I "D#- I "f \

"Ft.., I-B-I

<octave>=V I "0" I "1* | ... |'0'|

*c* means the note Is chorded

T means the note u Ilea

<tuple> - -:3- I ( -7- (for triplets

ondsoon)

(2«mmkn. B=quave«. et at)
'rest/4' means a crotchet test.
*C«:3/8' means C#. octave 5. quaver,
port of triplet, so 2/3 normal lengtn
*F2d/4" means F. octave 2. dotted crotchet.

Note that flats are not yet
supported (they soon will be), and
that most applications (for example
Sonet) win use octaves 2 to 7. A 1 *55Hz.
A4=440Hz. A7=3520Hz.

Samples

Somptes are stored m an IFF «e called
"BSVX" which stands for fl-brt Sampled
Voice, it can be used for two different
jobs - a one-shot sound effect or a
musical instrument. Let's look Inside an
6SVX, to see how It does It.

Every FORM 8SVX contains at least
two chunks - VHDR and BODY. The
lost is the chunk which holds the
sampled waveform values, and its
probably quite large. A 3-second
sound effect, sampled at 12kHz will
use almost 36k. The VHDR chunk, on
the other hand, is tiny. Just 28 fun-
packed bytes, laid out like this:

56464452 0000O0I4 OO0WCC4
00000000 VHDff...
00000000 2EEBOIO0 000 10000

which translates into

VHDR I

:slie=20

neShot 36036

;(4 byles)

repeat 0

;(4>

PerHi 0

;(4)

PerSec 120)2

;(2)

octaves 1

;(»

comp 0

;(l)

volume 65536

:(4)

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-

This means that the size of the
sample - that Is the data size ot the
body chunk - Is equal to
oneShot+repeat = 36036 bytes. A
repeat value ot zero means that this
Is a one-shot sound.

PefSec Is the number of samples to
play back each second. PerHI and
octaves are used for musical
Instruments - more on these later.

A value of 0 in the comp field
means that no compression Is being
used. Last time I checked, the only
other value reserved for this field was
1, meaning Flbonacci-delto
encoding.

If you hove your own compression
method, put another number into this
field, to Identify the compression
method you have used Ideally, get
In touch with Commodore to register
your number, so that compression
method number 27 (or whatever)
means the same to you as It does to
everyone else.

Bear in mind that the one-
shot+repeat = the number of samples
offer any decompression, so It's only
the same as the data size of the
body chunk If the sample Is
uncompressed <fhey usually are.)

Finally volume, ranging from 0 to
0x10000 (65536) and not OkFFFF.
strangely enough, for full volume.
Zero Is for silence

Here's a thing - why is the
playback rate 12012Hz, not 12,000?
I'll tell you. The audio chip has a
clock rate ot 3,579,546 cycles per
second (on a PAL A500 - don't
assume it will always be this). The rate
at which it plays back a sound Is
calculated as one sample per N
dock cycles. The period is calculated
as

lnl(3S7v546/ideal lrequency)-2«B cycles.

The octuol playback rate will then
be 3579546/298. or 1201 1.B99Hz. This is
the closest approximation you can
get to 12kHz No worries - rt's only out
by 0.1%. so no one can tell the
difference.

Musical Instruments are rather
more complicated than one-off
effects Sample lengths are the first
problem. What If a piece of music
cans for a very long note, say a whole
note in a smoochy stow number. Must
we store a huge sample of the
instrument to allow for this posstolNty?

Thankfully no. What we can do
Instead is store a one-shot part which
is used at the start of the note, and a
repeat part which is played over and
over again until the end of the note.
If the values were one-shol=35036.
and repeats 1000, then a play-back
routine should play the first 35036
bytes once, then repeat 'he last 1000

ATAK ond PISE define the waveform volume envelope

bytes unW told to stop.

The repeat part must contain an
Integral number of waveform cycles - if
not you'll get a loud click at the end o'
each repeat.

Frequencies can also be a problem.
For one thing, the playback rate is not
fixed - it has to be altered ki order to
generate different notes. Also, many
musical Instruments cover a wide
range of octaves.

To go up to a frequency much
higher than that ot which the
Instrument was sampled would push
the audio DMA down to o very low
period

Firstly, you can t have one sample in
less than 124 clock cycles. This would
give the hardware Insufficient time to
fetch data from memory,

Secondly, frequencies are less
accurate as they get higher. The
nearest approximation to 28kHz Is
28185Hz. out by 0.66%, starting to get
noticeable.

To get by these limitations, the
Instrument can be sampled at several
drTferent octaves. The "octaves" field in
VHDR Is set to the number of octaves
used. The BODY chunk starts with Ihe
Instrument samples at the highest
octave. The 'oneShot* field contains
the number of bytes In the one-shot
part of the highest octavo. The
"repeat" field does the same for the
repeat part, so together they add up
to the total length of the highest
octave.

Next in the body chunk is the next
octave down, which ts exoctty twice as
long as the first octave, as each
octave Is twice as long as Ihe one
before It.

Finally. Ihe "perHI" field s used to say
how many samples there are per
waveform cycle In the highest octave.
The "perSec" field is Ignored.

An 8SVX form must have a VHDR
and a BODY - these ore required
chunks, but It can also have optional
standard chunks. And like any IFF
FORM, it can contain non-standard

chunks too. (Look back at November's |
Code Clinic tor a reminder of what j
these terms mean.) Your program must ,
skip over any chunks it doesn'l (
recognise, not Just guru out. if It does
that's you/ fault.

Three common property chunks are
"NAME", "(c) '. and "AuTH". which are
text chunks used to hold the name of o
FORM, its copyright details and the
name ot the author. Because they are
property chunks, each type should
appear at most once.

There may also be one or more
"ANNO" data chunks, holding text '
annotations typed in by the author. I
Frankly. ANNO is very rare in 8SVX files,
but you could well see them in other
FORM types.

Finally, let s have a look at the
envelope chunks. ATAK and RISE. These
are used to change volume factors as a
sample is replayed. (By volume foci or. I
mean that each point Is a multiplier of
the global volume given In the VHDR
chunk,) Each envelope chunk contains
one or more EGPoints'. Here's on
example;

41544MB 00OOOOOC 00640001 00OO00CS
ATAK 00008000

This means;

'Start the volume at zero, then over
the course of 100 (S64) milliseconds sBae
it up linearly to 100% of the global
volume (S00010000). Next, over the
course of 200 (SC8) mlHIseconds slide It
down to half the global volume
(S000OB000)-

You know that II has two points,
because an EGPoint is always six bytes,
and this chunk has a data see of 12.

The RLSE chunk does the same at the
end of the sample, so if It has. say. three
points of 100, 40 and 30 milliseconds,
you should start to execute It 170
milseconds before the sample Is due to
end.

•Next month we deal with musical SMUS files,
which use 85VX samples as Instruments.

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Jason Holborn prises himself away from his key-
boards to keep you in tune with the latest news
and gossip from the Amiga music scene

Deluxe Music deluxe?

The gossip channels have been
buzzing recently with rumours
that Electronic Arts are hard at
work producing a major upgrade to
Deluxe Music to bring It In line with
current developments.

According to EA's own Sarah
ShrapneB. because the Deluxe pack-
ages were designed as in-house
development tools, they are m con-
stant development As soon as EA
feel that they have o sufficiently
enhanced version, it win be sold as an
upgrade.

Sarah went on to say that even It
an upgrade was to arrtve, It certainly
wouldn't be available tor at least
another three months. Version I ot
Deluxe Mustc became obsolete years
ago, so It would be in EA's interesrs to
do something about ft.

Doin'theDoo with MusicX

After years of rejection, It seems that
the Amiga Is finally starting to make
its mark In the music Industry. Among
those now using rt Is Betty Boo. whose
hits Include Where ore you baby?
and Doin' the Dool.

According to Microllluslons. Betty Is
using an Amiga running their
sequencer system. MuilcX, to pro-
duce all of her latest chart hits.
Including much of her new album
Boo Mania. Although Betty was
unavailable for Interview, If Is
believed that she Is a great fan of the
Amiga.

Betty joins other big names such as
Cortney Pine, Jon Hammer and Prince,
all devotee users of the Amiga for musi-
cal purposes.

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All patched up

Sound Quest Inc. the Ontario-based
company who produce a range of
synth patch editors for the Amiga, have
released Midi Quest, a universal
editor/librarian. The program comes
with configurable Midi drivers, integrat-
ed graphic editing and multi-Instrument
filing capabilities

The program allows you to manipu-
late synth patch files (sound data files)
created by Sound Quest products on
both the Amiga and other computer
systems. They can be edited to create
new banks of sounds by cutting, post-
ing, mixing and blending patches from
other banks.

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Betty Boo; Another devotee

Music extra

It's rrnolly here! MusicX 1.1 has arrived,
and already there's talk of even more
upgrades In the pipeline betore the big
one arrives - Music-X 2.0. This latest
release has been floating round a num-
ber of UK and US recording studios tor
several months now. but at last it's
available to Joe Public

The first thing you'l notice about ft Is
the fact that It no longer works on a
512k Amiga. OK, you can load the
thing In, but don't expect to be able to
use it - all you get is loads of "Out of
memory' requesters every time you fry
to do anything.

When you first load it up, things look
virtually identical, but that's not to say
MusicX 1 . 1 Is nothing more than a few
fixed bugs. No siree. Microllluslons hove
Included many new features to further
enhance what Is generally regarded as
the Amiga number 1 .

The redly good news about this new
release is Its price - MusicX 1.0 would

have set you back €230, but MusicX
1.1 has been launched ot £150.
Existing users can upgrade from 1 .0 to
1.1 for |ust £20. Give Microllluslons a
col on 0d80 496497 for more info.

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New MusicX features

Muttl-serlal capabilities: MusicX can
now talk to up to eight serial ports
simultaneously (using a serial port
expansion cord such as that available
from ASDG. Inc.) in both directions,
which allows it to address a theoreti-
cal 128 Midi channels simultaneously.
Event sculpting: Just like Passport's
Master Tracks Pro, you can now sculpt
note velocities, continuous controller
values, aftertouch, pitch bend and so
on using the mouse.

Drag the mouse across the bar edi-
tor screen and MusicX will redraw a
continuous series of controller events
to conform to the mouse s path.
View controBers: Vou con now choose
to display one type of controller at a
time, or all controllers simultaneously.
Velocity flattener: This works just like
the MusicX velocity scaler, except that
it sets the velocity to a constant value
which can be ramped or randomised.
Lock channels: It is now possible to
lock the current Midi channel from
within the bar editor, which mokes It
easier to selectively edit data tor a
particular channel from within a multi-
channel sequence. This is a bit like a
musical equivalent of DPaint's stencil
function.

Sample tuning and envelope editor:

Sample envelopes and tuning can be
edited in real-time while sequences
ore playing.

Play sequence events: MusicX win now
automatically stretch a play
sequence event to the full length of
the sequence that It is to trigger

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Budget showdown

This month we start a two part corn-

Amiga Computing 1 29

parlson of Mlcrollluslons" MusicX
Juniof and Passport's Tiax sequencer
Both are competitively priced, but
which is best for you? let's start with a
look at the most recent arrival. Trax.

This Is being distributed In the UK
by MCM(071-7244104)..

America software house. Passport have
never until now been particularly
active on the Amiga. In tact, until
quite recently the only thing they hod
to offer Amiga owners was Masfer
Tracks Pro, a professional sequencer
with a price tag to match.

Now. after almost a year, Passport
have finally released Trax, which Is
substantially a cut down version of
Master Tracks offering the same Mac-
like user Interfoce, with powerful edit-
ing and composition facilities.

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Trax basics

Trax offers 64 tracks of realtime
recording which con contain up to 16
channels of Midi data. It uses the
same tape transport-type controls
used on lust about every other
sequencer. Just select the track you
wish to record to. cBck on the Return
button and start playing Trax then
does the rest.

Once a sequence has been
recorded you can set both the chan-
nel which the track a to be played on
and the synth program number It is to
be played with for rhythm parts, you
con loop tracks simply by clicking on
the loop gadget for that particular
track - which is much simpler than the
MustcX approach

All the rest of the track operations -
delete track, copy track and so forth
- are pretty standard and are select-
ed from the pull down menus.
Surprisingly, it you wish to extract par-
ticular Midi events this has to be car-
ried out from within Trax s sequence
editor.

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Sequence editing

Editing of sequences Is carried out
from a MusicX-IIke Step Editor which
displays notes as horizontal bars, their
varying lengths denoting nole dura-
tion.

Editor modes are draw (add notes
with the mouse), select (highlight a
block of data), erase (click on notes
and they disappear) and keyboard,
which allows you to odd notes In step
time using your Midi keyboard. You
can also scale notes' velocity and
duration.

An extra editing facility oftows you

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Trax uses the now laminar
tape transport controls

Songs are built up by arranging measures within
the Trox Song Editor, this option alone makes Trax
something pretty speclol

to edit the Midi data for a particular
event by double clicking on the note
In question. This brings up a requester
that lists the event's attributes as Midi
stream data - a bit like the Event Editor
In MusicX. Just click within one of the
fields and you can change it simply by
typing in the new value.

Quantisation is particularly well han-
dled by Trax. As well as the usual facil-
ities, It lets you to shift notes slightly
away from the quantisation grid, there-
fore allowing you to play a sequence
slightly ahead or behind the beat.

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Song creation

Most budget sequencers leave a lot
to be desired when It comes to song
crecffton. Indeed, even the profession-
al version of MusicX doesn't offer any
real form of song editing (PlaySeq
events don't counil). However, Trox
has shown them all how It's done with
its dedicated song editor.

Almost identical to the one in its big
brother. Master Tracks, the editor
builds up a song by manipulating the
available tracks in terms of measures.
Each track Is displayed as a number of
graphic blocks, each block represent-
ing a single measure.

These blocks can be moved j
around and new sequences created
by cutting and pasting down blocks
from other sequences.

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Conclusion

Trax Is a darned good sequencer
capable of handling the most
demanding sequencing tasks. But for
a program that Is aimed at the ama-
teur musician. I )ust can't understand
why Passport didn't build in support foi
the Amiga's sound chip. After all. not
all of us can afford such luxuries as
multiple sound modules, samplers and
synths.

The editing facilities are second to
none. Both the Step Editor and the
Song Editor are well designed, power-
ful and above all, easy to use.

If terms of raw sequencing power,
you couldn't really ask (or more from a
budget offering. But It's the lack of
sound chip support that really lets It
down.

WWTE TO MEl It you're a musician who uses
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modem? This should not be a prob-
lem, as the good old mlga sports a
decent RS232 port. Plug In and go with
any standard coble.

It you are having probs, check The
pins. They are usually sensible, and sel-
dom require more than a transmit line,
a receive line, a ground and an
acknowledge. Easy.

To connect your deck to the nation-
al phone network, you need a new-
style BT socket. If your house Is still
fitted with the horrible 1/4 inch Jack
plugs, ring up BT and crackle at them

Tell em you have static. Tell em
you can't hear your dear granny
when she calls. Chances ore the first
thing BT wHI do is change you sockets.
Worked for me.

Most modems will auto-dlol, This
means when you plug em in instead
of the phone, your computer will dial
the BBS numbers for you. No phone
button punching reauired.

If not, or you think you may want to
use speech occasionally, you'll need
to connect your phone as well as the
modem. Some modems have through
ports for the phone, but If yours
doesn't a spttter from youi local Tandy
wil solve this problem.

If might be worth your whle getting
an extension cable too. Setting up
your computer In the had so you can
use the phone Is not fun, especially If
you hall Is as cold as mine.

Finally It's time to go. Pick o number
from the list overieat. and check to
see that it's the right time. If the board
says it's 24hrs you can't go wrong.

Copy the number Into the Phone
Book part of your comms software.
Then go for it. Dial It.

II you are lucky and get online fust time,
let me know. I hove never seen 11 happen.
Mote likely you will hi! on engaged lone.
Ihe baud rates won t match or It lust wont
work.

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PFM makes full use of Amiga's Workbench interface, if you
need to amend or update an entry or Standing order simply
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PFM handles Credit and Debit - Monthly.Quarterly. Yearly and
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10 can be displayed either in figures or as a bar graph for a
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When you get your bank account statement or a balance from
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Nic Veitch takes a look around at
what's going on in the expanding DTP
world and tries to mention someone
other than his friends at Gold Disk

The world of DTP. resting as it
does upon the crest of the
wove of new technology. Is
on ever changing place. Someone's
always developing new whatstts that
mokes some process easier or some-
thing like that. As soon os you
become proficient you become out-
dated - there is a constant state of
flux that must be ridden even as
something mythological probably
had to be, Anyway, on with what's
going down.

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Price war

l don't know, some people don't
know how lucky they are. Hrst of oil
we give away o very nice demo on
the coverdlsk and now Gold Disk
hove dropped the price ot their
famously wonderful Pagesetter II.

What happens? We get complaints.
Well, okay, we got on awful lot of let-
ters saying how wonderful the demo
was and all that, but there were one
or two dissenting voices. One guy
wrote In to complain that he couldn't
place text at an angle. Well, I mean,
I'm so sorry. We must have over-
looked that. The fact that the only
DTP package (but not for long) that
can do this Is the very latest version of
Quark Xpress is norther here nor there.

The point of oil this Is that
Pagesetter II Is now available Tor
around £53 from HB marketing (0753
686000), or It you have no joy there I
believe Silica Shop (081-30° 1111) can
do you a deal. It is not only the best
value DTP package for the Amiga, rt
S the only one specifically designed
for those of us who don't have a
Class I laser product at the other end
of the parallel cable. Other price

DOWN

IN
PRICE!

restructuring effects Pro Page VI. 3.
now £169 ex. VAT and the Outline
Fonts package, now £108.75 ex. VAT.

Gold Disk have brought out a
new range ot scalable fonts. Aimed
at more specific areas than the
Outline Font pack these fonts are
once agam licensed from AGFA, the
world's largest producer of sUable-
fonts.

Four packages are available at
the moment, each containing three
fonts. It Is possible to use these fonts
to create a statically sized bitmap
font for use in any Amiga software
which uses workbench fonts (I.e.. a
lot of wordprocessors. nearly all art
packages...).

The four packs (Designer,
Publisher. Decorative and Video) will
be retailing in thrs country Tor oround
£35. Font aficionados are reminded
that Gold Disk have a library of over

Price cuts across the board for Gold Disk products

Examples from the new range of
'font packs from Gold Disk

__

Amiga Computing 1 37

100 Compugraphic fonts which can
be O'dored direct. For more Informa-
tion contact Gold Disk at their new
offices in Ontario on (0101
4166024000)

rrrrrrrrr

Clippin eck

One thing that's always useful when
dabbling with DTP Is a nice spot of
clip-art. According to Diskotech 80
per cent of Amiga owners In this
country hove one or more art pack-
ages, and clip-art Isn't necessarily
restricted to DTP.

Hopefully trying to be of help
when at the lost minute you find your-
self 400 words short with a space to
rm at the bottom of Page 60. these
people have put together what
could be the first of many "oven-
ready" disks of useful stuff.

House builder, apparently, is a
comprehensive library of many
graphic elements which can be
combined to reproduce, in correct
colour and scale any house of the
present past or conceivably the
future. There are over 750 graphical
elements to foot around with.

All the pieces share the same 32-
colour palette and general scale for
ease of compatiblirry. The houses can
be combined with some of the
customising clips such as cattlaps.
satellite dishes and the like to create
truly individual pieces.

House builder comes on two disks
with a manual including tutorials and
Is available for £30 from Diskotech

W r f r r r F F
Professional OTP

Yes. It's Gold Disk again. I know what
you're thinking but can I help It If they
seem to be the only active people In
the world of DTP. t mean they don't
get all this coverage because of
cute PR people or anything (sorry
Keith),

Well, it was In the wind wasn't It?
First Pagesetter got seen to. then Pro
Draw hod a spring dean, now t*s Pro
Page's turn Although copies have
not turned up for review yet I think I
can pass on some of the Information
we have received from Gold Disk.

Improved features will include
style tagging, rotation of text and
graphics, automatic page numbering
and faster PostScript generation. The
really big additions will be 24-bit
colour support ond Pantone colour
matching.

Pantone is almost another industry
standard. If you talk to your local
printers they win understand all about
It. or at least have heard of If. This
addition means that you w» now

1 38 Amiga Computing

be able lo define the colours and rest
assured that they will come out
exactly as you specified them. Style
tagging Is a real boon too. Just Imag-
ine. You con set tags onall the copy
before you read It Into Pro Page. No
more messing around waiting for the
screen refresh just because you had
to set a crossheod in a different size.
No more relentlessly searching
through oceans of text looking for
the thing that was supposed to be In
Italics...

Pro Page will now support 24-blt
colour files, such as those produced-
by ray tracing packages, scanners

etc. This means they can be import-
ed Into a document and separated
to the* origlnol colour depth

Just because you can't see them
very well on screen doesn't mean
that you can't print them out!

The ease-of-use flavour seems to
be one aspect they are keen on
keeping. Every copy wW ship wrrh an
Instructive video-tutorial to enable
users to get to grips with rt fast.

Professional Page 2.0 should be
shipping by the time you read this at
the wonderful price of £395. whatev-
er that gets converted into by distrib-
utors here.

House Builder comes with o collection of examples...

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...and a collection of brushes to add that personal touch

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Chariots of Wrath com-
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RRP £24.95

games ever written, resulting In an action-
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Each phase of the game features impressively

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highly addictive game play.

As you traverse through the levels, amassing

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RRP £24.95

TRAINED ASSASSIN

This blockbuster com-
bines the best features ol
some of the most popular
games ever to have
appeared on the Amiga.
It features frve action-packed levels with differ-
ent varieties of scrolling and gameplay, with
the fifth level guaranteed to raise your joy-
stick's temperature by a few degrees (if not
your own).

Trained Assassin is of a standard that could
probably survive unaltered in a real arcade -
tew games could manage that' - Stewart
Russet, Amiga Computing.

RRP £24.95

RAIDER

Skill and determination are the
qualities you'll need In vast
amounts II you're going io
fully master this game.

Vou> moston consists of collecting pods oy hovenng
above mem and switching on your factor beam, but
a! If* time you nave lo take mto account the elects
o< inertia and gravity, controlling your sh© as smoothly
as possibU - to avoid colliding with ine planet below
'The graphics are vronoeriutly drawn and smoothly
scrolled M an directions. Every landscape is a joy lo
look at and explore . .debcate. addictive gameplay' -
John Kennedy, Amiga Computing

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Money? Get back. You'll be alright Jack with
Paul Austin looking after your stack. Swop
your jeans and T shirt for a tie and biro and
bravely enter the world of corporate finance

THE Amiga's brilliant sound
and graphics capabftttes has
In the past tended to mask
the contribution It can offer In the busi-
ness field. But now more and more
business-orientated software Is intro-
ducing rt into Britain's offices.

Aimed a little lower down the mar-
ket than the accounts office Is
Personal Finance Monoger, a power-
ful database with full Workbench
compatibility which will hold an
account only limited In size by avail-
able memory.

Atthough theoretically huge, and
certainly useful for a smaB business, it
has been designed on a much more
personal level.

After setting the starting balance for
the account, alterations are made
via transaction forms. Account entries
and standing orders ore the means by
which changes in your balance are
made, for example when you go
shopping, or perhaps a monthly loan
repayment. Consequently you have
to keep all receipts so you can keep

your account up to date.

Entries can be checked against a
tormal statement or deferred, this
being displayed In the program, mak-
ing balancing your statement much
eager Checked Items are denoted by
a tick next to the relevant entry. All
entries are automatically ordered by
date.

Standing orders can easily added
to the account. These orders can
already be In operation. for instance,
say If you have a loan running at the
moment and you wish to odd to the
occount simply enter how often, how
much and how long the loan has to
go. and the account will then reflect
the debit from the balance when the
amount fcs due.

Orders can also be suspended If
required, but when the suspension is
lifted all outstanding payments wil be
made. Also variations In the amount
due can catered for, such as a
change in the mortgage rates.

Balancing the account Is made
even easier by Reconciliation, a pro-

BalancB display chart: Now that'i what's known as a bod patch

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Budget comparison bar chart: What you
!«• is what you've spent, and what you
thought you would

cess by which the program will outo-
mat leafy botance your account over
o definable period, deferring pay-
ments until a match Is ochleved with
your bonk statement.

Deferring transactions can also be
carried out manually This simply sus-
pends any particular transaction from
appearing in the present balance,
but does not remove It from the
account. This can be done when the
transaction has cleared.

It's ateo possible to set up a budget
by using code letters when entering
details- for example, L for loan. A set
amount can then allocated to each
category These can be displayed in
numerical or chart form showing
actual and budget amounts.

Ten separate categories can be
created which can be separately fit-

Double graph: Take a closer look, or com-
pare last month with this

Amiga Computing 141

lered for Individual analysis- useful tot
finding out excatly where all youi
money goes and why.

If mote than 10 categories are
required - soy one covering car
spares for a year - simply enter a sep-
arate code letter for each entry con-
cerning car spares and when the
analysis is required alter one of the fil-
ter codes to the designated code
and filter Ihe dafa in the usual way
The result is a detailed account of all
spares expenditure over the last
month, quarter or year as required.

Ihe real power of the program
begins to show when using graphs
and charts. Each of the component
parts can be displayed in a pie chart
format showing spending on a specif-
ic budget. Also a budget comparison
Is available as described above ,

The account can also be displayed
on a bar graph showing the account
over any predetermined time period.
One month's graph can be displayed
alongside another, both using the
same graph formal and thus the
Improving analysis- Vou can see at a
glance any major change In expendi-
ture.

Each of these screens and graphs
can be displayed at once via
Workbench style sizable windows The
refresh rate when resizing a window
isn't very good, but It is sifting through
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AMOS genius and insufferable bighead Peter
Hickman keeps up to date with what's new and
has us all reaching for our joysticks

WOTCHA AMOS freaks, how
ate things going? Wei with
Ihe European Computer
Entertainment Show and exerting new
AMOS projects popping up. things
have been iea*v busy this month.

So before I rabbit on with the AMOS
news let me Just say how nice It was to
meet some of vou at the E.C.E.S. (I
could be found annoying everybody
on the Mandarin Software stand), All
of your comments were very much
appreciated and I will try and Incorpo-
rate some of your suggestions Into this
column.

A couple of you said I went too fast
in the first Instalment ot our ongoing
wtrte-a-game series, especially Peter
"Baby Bear" Lee. who thought I tried
to squeeze loo much In. Oh well. I
think I've gauged this month's part ot
the AMAL tutorial to the correct level.
I New for AMOS news. Here Is o big
exclusive straight from one of
Mandarin Software s programmers:
Fun School 3 - the top selling series of
educational programs written with
AMOS - is being converted to waik
with the Commodore CDTV (gasps of
shock and horror).

What future Implications this has for
AMOS users is currentfy the subject ot
much speculative comment and I
cannot say ony more 'cos I've been
told to keep my big trap shut! (I just
hope the CDTV sete In btg numbers.)

With AMOS 1 .2 finished (get your
copy of the update disk from the
AMOS PD library, phone Sandra
Sharkey on 0942-495 261 for more
derails) Francois Uonet has been busy
working on some new goodies for us
lowty Basic programmers.

The major new cWdrtton to AMOS Is
a new music extension which has bet-
ter support for converting some of the
more complex Soundtrocker modules.
I don't have a copy yet, but by the
time vou read this it should be avail-
able from the AMOS PD library. Of
course Francois Is also busy on the
AMOS Compiler which should be
available in January (keep those fin-
gers crossed).

Our last piece ot news concerns

AMOS 3D. Quite a lot of you asked
about the 3D demo wrwch was running
at the show and hopefully a fuly inter-
active demo should be available
before Christmas In all major PD
libraries

Although the product wll not make
an appearance until January (busy
month ror AMOS users) I have a feeling
that you con get a sneak preview of if
if you turn up at the Computer
Shopper Show.

One late piece of news which has
Just reached me is that Gipper the
mad Mandarin monkey made famous
by numerous "guest' spots on STOS
and AM05 packaging, has finally
cracked and let loose with an Uzl 9mm
at Europa House.

Rumour has It that the demented
creature had felt rejected by
Mandarin staft ever since the Fun
School 3 teddies came onto the
scene. Richard Vanner said "ti's very
sad, al he does now Is sit in a corner
and suck a banana. Perhaps l
shouldn't have let him listen to Steve
Wright in the afternoons?'

Fortunately nobody was injured in
this incident. Nutf soldi

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Give it some stick

LAST month we looked at simple
movement and animation using AMAL
(you did buy last month's issue, didn't
you?). Now let's see how to move the
little guy with the joystick.

Press Ihe Escape key to jump to
Direct mode and Insert the AMOS Data
Disk (the one with AmosterokJs. Magic
Forest and all of the other games on)
then type:

LOAD"AMOS_DATA:MAGIC_FOREST/MFSPRirES
ABK'

We now have the SPRITE file with our
little geezer present in memory for us to
muck about with. We are going to
have to do a bit more typing than
usual, so press Escape to jump back to

editor mode and type these next few
line which will tidy up our display:

CURS OFF : FLASH OFF : HIDE ON : CLS 0
DOUBLE BUFFER
GET SPRITE PALETTE

OK. now the really hard bit (well it's
not that hard, I lust wanted to alert
you). It's time to design Ihe AMAL pro-
gram which will make our guy move
left and right according to our joystick
movements.

One tip l can give all budding
AMAL writers is that when constructing
an AMAL program I find It best to |ot
down some notes on a scrop of paper
as well as a complete list of all exter-
nal and Internal registers (more about
those as we go along) as some strings
can become very complicated - just
look at Amosteroids.

The first thing we need to do Is to sel
up a starting label for our AMAL pro-
gram. While this Is by no means essen-
tial. It comes in handy as a reference
point. Remember to type this next line
In exactly as It appears:

A$=-B«gin:-

That wasn't hard was It? Now we
need to test the joystick. We can easi-
ly do this using two "special" AMAL
registers JO and J1. The first returns a
value from port 0 (or the mouse port to
all readers who, like me, prefer user-
friendlier terms) and the latter returns a
value from the joystick port (port 1).

The value passed into these regis-
ters by the Amiga depends on which
way you move the (oystlck. By push-
ing up you wilt get a value of one, by
pushing right you will get a value ot 8,
by pushing up and right you will get a
value of 9.

There should be a simple dlogram
somewhere around this page showing
the values given when the loystick Is
manipulated. These should make We a
bit easier (there are other ways to took
at how joystick values can be Inter-
preted but they all Involve a bit of
binary maths so we will forget those for
now).

AMOS30 coming soon

OK, type this In :
A$=AS-'lf Jl-1 Rim Jump Left ;■
A$=AS*'II JI=B then Jump Rlghl f
AS=AS»"Jump Begin f

You will have noticed that when
the program detects a movement -
either (eft or right - It jumps to another
label. This Is because ot the way
AMAL works - H will only let you fol-
low an "If statement with a Jump.
eXrt or Direct command. The last line
tells AMAL to jump back to the label
we defined at the beginning of the
program.

Now comes the realty exciting bit,
the movement and animation. We
need to define the labels Left: and
Right: which the main part of our
AMAL program will Jump to if the joy-
stick is moved. Follow each of these
we will need to put the commands
we want executed If any of Ihe joy-
stick conditions are met. Type this :

A$«ASf"l«ll:Anlm t,(I.4)(2,4)(3,4)(2.4)(l t 4)
; Move -16.0.16;"
AS=AS** Jump Begin ;"
A$*AS»"Rkjht:Anlml,<6,4)(5,4)(4,4)(5,4)(6 ( 4)
;Move 16.0,16;"
A$=A$»" Jump Begin;"

As you can see, we start the line
with the Label name followed directly
by the animation data. You should
always put your animation before
movement 'cos AMAL will not exe-
cute the next command until It has
finished moving.

After we have finished moving the
geezer the AMAL program Is told to
jump back to the label Begin. This
allows another set ol tests to be
made for the joystick movement. Of
course, all of this happens 50 times a
second (60 times a second in the
U.S.A.), amazing huh?

Anyway we have our AMAL string,
and now we need to display the BOB
and assign its animation channel, so
type this (It's roughly the same as in
the last issue) :

BOB 1.160,100,1
CHANNEL 1 TO BOB 1
AMAL I, AS
AMAL ON 1
DIRECT

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Value ffljponsei lor different stick positions

I am rapidly running out of space, so
before l go tef me give you a quick
explanation of the AMAL external regis-
ters. These are labelled RA to RZ and let
the user communicate with the AMAL
program.

One of the best examples so far Is
Amosferolds - I didn't say the game
was that good but it makes excellent
use of the AMAL registers.

In this game when an asteroid is hit
by your ship It passes a value into an
AMAL register which Is continually
checked by the Basic part of the pro-
gram. When the value Is introduced to
the register the Basic program plays an
explosion sample

IH take you through an example of
using registers in the next issue, but for
now take a look at the program on the

Stills from ine AMOS 3D Demo

Cover Disk which uses an externc
register to tell the Basic progran
whether the player Is moving left o
right.

Abo on the Cover Disk are some
of the sprites from Fun School 3 for
you to play around with. A complete
set Is available from the AMOS PO
library

Oh, Richard Wanner wants me to
remind you all that Fun School 3 Is an
excellent series of educational pro-
grams available from Database
Educational Softwore, but I won't
'cos I'm not getting paid on a royal-
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40MB £359
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leplacement 2 button mouse £20

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LC200 9 pm col -_,,-_-,„-.._-,,.. _£230

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lMeg AMIGA

SCREEN GEMS
FLIGHT OF FANTASY
& BATMAN PACKS

£379.99

Choose any five of the items listed below:

Slum Car Racer
Blasieroids
Rick Dangerous
Blood Monev
RVF Honda "

Kick Off
Pipe Mania
Kid Gloves
Driving Force
Joystick

Dust Cover
Cycles
Mouse Mate
10 Blank Disks

Shool-em-up Constmclion Kit Ollly £29.99

SQUMD

Sound

WHAT IS MASTER SOUND?

I

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* :i U>H cost, high quality sound sampler lor the AMIG/\ range of computers
Sampling/Editing/Scquencing software. MASTER SOPJjjn nubia you 10

1XQR

in or J ^MinfijVTm devices Mich as Personal Cassette tir Compact Disc plavcrTfoo (he AMU . \
When in hya.mrHiier. MASTER SOUND'S unique alitor will enable you to e$j the sound in
nraciN^Mnv way you can imagine. Once you have the sample how you w.mtV. you may
IncmrWc it into your own Demo's or programs or use MASTER SOUND'S owr^PUILT IN
■mufe^tiiencct to play hack the sample along with a number of others too!

Tf# MASTER SOUND

wares the following facilities: f

AMPLE * PLAY/ 4 ; kk I

UT * COPY * OVERLAY

J-ADE IN * HAOfOlT * VOl.UM

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£COFE * FFT \ . VU MbT^R

mpresBive realtime Spectrum ANwIvwr and Gldt focupr enable the user to monitor
r and volume with ease anJ he>-«ou(o ensurexftat the- sample quality is at its

THE MASTER SOUND SEQUENCER'

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LOOP

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SEQUENCER?

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AI]..i«%h to play back samples m a wquence Multiple samples can be held in memor^r once
:ind ^^nce* as simple to record as tapping keys on the computer's keyboard. Orm&corded.
the Sequent ,., n >iivi . rne samples and sequence file out onto disc so that the files can f* used in
yiHit nun demo's. .

THE MASTER SOUND DEMO

\llowi you 10 play bad your uwn sequenced sounds from the sequent
i'iitut. til.- Diuf is greVj^r creating your own public domain demg.

hile displaying IFF
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MASTER SOUND EDITOR

© MICRODEAL 1990
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

MASTER SOUND ORDER FORM

Master Sound is £39.95 post & packing £1 (all prices inc VAT.]

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Post Code

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Send to: Microdeal PO Box 68 St Austell Cornwall England PL25 4YB

JL Now you can own
ijj'hbably the toughest
m l set of pens in the
fjj world - for much
• than half price!

(Or buy two - and get them both for
almost a quarter of the normal price)

The three pens that make up the Pentech 200
pen set can stand up to the roughest treatment you
can inflict on them - and still give you best possible
writing quality. The pens, made to the highest standards of
workmanship, are not only robust but are of classic
appearance suitable for all occassions from the home to the
Board Room, from the school essay to the best selling novel

We have made a special purchase of a limited number of
entech sets and can now offer you this unique, high-quality
writing technology at a price never before possible.

e normal retail price is £37.85. But with this special offer you
can buy one set for just £14.95. Buy a second to offer a
colleague as a present and we'll send you the two sets for £20!

You can buy with confidence. Each
set comes with a lifetime guarantee.

The three pull-top
pens in their
presentation
case consist of

One cartridge pen

One ballpoint pen

One fine liner

Choose from
smart matt black
or satin chrome
metal finish

To order, please use the form on page 168

JkMJGA

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AVIDI

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OFFER

SAVE

£15

Thanks to a breakthrough by Rombo
Productions in frame-grabbing technology,
you can now produce good colour images
quickly and cheaply with Vidi-Amiga and the
VidiChrome colour software.

Take snapshots in 16 shades live from video
• Multiple frame store
I Dynamic cut and paste
Full palette control

Hardware and software control of brightness and contrast
Compatible with all video standards

"Vidi must be one of the most exciting peripherals you
can buy for your Amiga" - Amiga Computing, March 1990

RRP £134.95-
OUR PRICE

£119.95

Includes colour
upgrade worth
£19.95

See order form on page 168

Ear shattering offers
Amiga Computing

Make the most of your Amiga's superb
sound capabilities by connecting
Soundblaster's high quality stereo amplifier
and speakers.

Using the latest microchip technology, the
specially designed amplifier can deliver an
ear-shattering five watts of music power,
with twin controls provide complete control
over volume and balance.

The fifty watt speakers consist of a woofer,
a mid-range and a tweeter for the highest
possible sound quality. Thumping bass,
crisp trebles: You'll hear them all with
incredible clarity.

The Amiga Soundblaster comes complete
with mains adaptor and full instructions. No
alterations to your computer are required
- just plug in and switch on to re-discover
sound on your Amiga.

SOUNDBLASTER

Boost your computer's sound with an
A MIGA£OUNDBL.

ONLY
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Buy all 3
SAVE
£20.90

Make beautiful music
on your Amiga

Quartet is a stunning sequencing package that will allow
you to compose anything from a jingle to a symphony.

Making full use of the Amiga's unique four channel
stereo sound system. Quartet is equally at home playing
Depeche Mode or Debussy. Quartet comes complete with
complete instructions, a disk of full of sound samples and
full source code to allow you to intergrate your tunes into
your own programs.

What's more, Quartet is MIDI compatible, so you can
connect a suitable keyboard or synthesiser to enter notes
directly.

It's the irionl sequencer package to complement
the excellent Master Sound sampler
- Amiga Computing, August 1990

Quartet comes with full instructions
and two disks for £39.95

Master Sound

Capture any sound you hear
and replay it in seconds

It's so easy to use: Simply connect the sampler to your
Amiga, load the software and immediately you have the
ability to capture sounds with amazing accuracy.

Connect your compact disc player or personal stereo
and digitise sounds to incorporate into your own games
and tunes.

The supplied software provides complete control over
the sampled sounds: Cut and paste them, flip and fade
them and you're still only using a tiny fraction of the sound
processing tools available.

Best of all, the comprehensive instructions will soon
have you creating your own public domain demo disks
complete with IFF picture files.
The perfect sound sampling package for beginners and
experts alike.

Master Sound is a complete hardware and software
sampling system for only 34.95

Is it real or is it Master Sound?"

-Amiga Computing, May 1990

See order form on page 168

AMIGA

COMPUTING

DISK BARGAINS

Infogrames have taken
this timeless classic
and added a whole
range of added features
to bring you Chess
Simulator.

M U I A T O R

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Chess Simulator is the
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enthusiasts. It's perfect for guiding and improving your
talents until you ultimately attain the standard of the
Grand Masters. Infogrames' game includes a whole
range of outstanding features including: An intelligent
opening moves library, countless levels of play, advise
options, save and restore options, 3D
views and a wide range of different
iece designs.

American Dreams

Four action and
strategy games are
I included in this
| sensational package
from Infogrames.

Test your laleni in SUPER SKlj
on the ski jump, slalom, giant
slalom and downhill races.

Our Price

£19.95

Future Dreams

Four unbeatable
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from Infogrames.

PURPLE SATURN DAY -

A unique game which has
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Participate in the Intergalactic

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SPIDERTRONIC - 3D action and digitised sound enhance this
fascinating strategy game..

G.NIUS - Your space station has crashed on an unknown planet
Escape the wreck before it disintegrates around you. Timed action
and a trantic pace

WARLOCK'S QUEST - An arcade adventure swarming with evil

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It's Amazing!
It's Radical!
It's the Rolling Ru

A complete drawing board in one simple unit. With a
rolling ruler you can draw:

* Horizontal parallel lines

* Vertical parallel lines

* Pertect right angles with ease

* Any other angles from 1* to 359 Q

* Clever circles

Available in two sizes 22cm (8in) and 30cm (12in) this oreat otter aets
you both rolling rulers tor just £5.95 (RRP £9.99)

It's Innovative design gives the new rolling ruler the ability to draw
vertical and horizontal lines without lifting il off the paper parallel
lines, angles, circles, musical staves and graphs with ease, making
^ it ideal for the home, the office, schools, workshops and 3D design

AMIGADOS: A Dabhand Guide

Is a comprenonave guide io the Commodore amiga's disc Operating
System (Versions t .2 and l .3). It provides a unique perspective on this
powerful system m a way which wiil be welcomed by the beginner and the
experienced user alike.

Ratner man simply reiterating the Amiga manual, this book takes a
genuinely different approach io understanding and using the Amiga and
contains a wealth of pracucal hands-on advice and hints and tips.
The many features of this book indude

• Ful coverage of Amoa DOS 1 3 functions

• Ftfng with and without the Workbench

• The Amiga's hierarcricai I *ng system

• Pathnames and Devce names

• Tht Amiga's mu II (asking capacities

• The AmigaDOS screen eoto

• AmigaDOS commands

• Batch processing

• Amoa Error code descrpions

• How to create new systems discs

• use of the RAM discs

• Using AmtgaOOS with C
Amiga Computing approved reading

£14.95

Keyboard dust cover
(A500)
£4.95

Protect your
Amiga with
this top-
quality

cover made from clear, water-resistant vinyl.
Ifs bound with strong cotton and features
the Amiga Computing logo.

The pertect desktop environ-
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specially designed, perfect-
gilp surface. It ensure much
smoother movement,
gives super -positive
control and protects
you' Tabic top from
scratches

Binder
£5.95

Twelve rods hold your issues
in place and keep them in
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Disc storage box
£4.95

This luxury padded boi is the
ideal storage med-um. holding
up to FIFTY 3.5' discs

OWL

Sells for £39.95 ... but yours only £14.95

DG Calc is one of the most powerful and easy to use
spreadsheets in its price bracket. It offers all the features you
could think of, and many more besides.

Specially written to make the best use of the Amiga's features. DG
Calc is an invaluable addition to your business utilities.

For your
personal
stereo,
radio or TV

You know how expensive it is to
replace your batteries when they
run down.

Even with rechargeable
batteries you still have to wait 14
hours for full charge. We have
solved the problem with the
unique supedast powerful
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This amazing device will
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Further, lor a limited period we
can sell the charger and four
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IT WILL PAY FOR
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Some of DG Calc's
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• 512 rrM by S2 columns

• Menu or command dm/en

• AofcistabWcoluiwi widths

• Te«t overflow

• instant recalculation

• integrates wild other program

• WurJow feature

• Us» definable formulas

• GOTO tenure

• Password ptoteoton

• ■. ■

• Powerful line derby

• IMXJ feature

• Beginner's tutorial

• Supports keyboard or mouse

• UK or*

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Back Issues

June 1990

£3.10

9724

July 1990

£3.10

9725

Aug 1990

£3.10

9726

Sept 1990

£3.10

9727

Oct 1990

£3.10

9728

Nov 1990

£3.10

9729

All these Dack issues include covet rAsA

Bargain bundle

issues ol Amiga Computing (Jan-Nov) £17.00 9931 I I
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Rombo Vidi-Chrome

£119.95 9391 □

Protext Version 4

£79.95 9530 O

Hi Soft Basic

Basic Compiler £69.95 9896

Battery charger

£19.95 9861
Plus post and packing £1.50

(3

Amiga Music

Soundblasler
Quanet
Masler Sound
Package ot alt three
tSeepaoe tioi

£44.95 9912

£39.95 9913

£34.95 9914

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Amiga DABhand Guide

A comprehensive guide to the Amiga's disc

operating system (version 1 .2 and 1 .3) £14.95 9866 I I

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2 MEG EXPANSION FOR
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.5 MEG EXPANSION
£34.95

AMIGA 500 SCREEN GEMS PACK
£349.95

MUSIC X 1.1
£79.95

YOUR MUSIC PUT ON VINYL, INC. FULL
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MUSIC X TUITION AT OuR STUDIO £40
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(he ongirdi wagum

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Mil - The Norm Stai Hega Demo

KA19 - Cool Cougar Demo Cartoon quatry

KA2G ■ Virus Kilter

m - The MKl Demo Disk

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KA23 Ky*e}UirwooeDemod«t»l

» A_ i Ky*e Urogue Demo deal 2 teaedi «A?3 to run

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KAM • north Star 4 Fas Light Mega Demo 3 OrilWt 2

*SC 0*mo

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twin disc nemo

KA36 ■ Fractal ftght Bnlbant tract* demo
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Dish Boxes

80 cap - £675

100 cap- £7.75

120 cap - £8.75

Banx Boxes in stock - £11.00

Mouse Mats - £3.75

Mouse Holders - £3.75

Amiga Dust Covers - £4.50

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FLIGHT OF FANTASY PACK £349.00
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NAKSMA MOUSE £33.50

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APL for the Commodore Amiga

The APL programming language is used by many of the
world's largest corporations because it is easy to learn and
extremely powerful in operation. APL's concise notation
and array handling features make it ideal for applications
involving large amounts of data or frequent code
alterations. APL.68000 is the only version of this unique
programming language which is available for the Amiga.

.APL.68000

► Unique array handling
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► Symbolic notation

► Fast program
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Amiga Specific Features

► Standard Amiga user
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Standard implementation 68881 support version

Versions of APL.68000 are available jbr most 68000-based computers

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Amiga 500 FIRST STEPS

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Quickshot II Turbo Joystick 9 oo

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Competition PRO Extra Joystick 12.99

Speed King Autofire Joystick M 9.99

Mouse Mare , 3.99

Contriver Replacement Mouse M 19.99

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Half Meg Upgrade inc clock 44 99

Disk Boxes 3.5' holds 40 6 99

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PRINTERS

Star LC24 1024 Pin incl lead ST/ Amiga 249.00

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Star LOO colour including interface lead

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The Tipster-
International

Feature

Can your Amiga even the odds?
Paul Austin studies the form

Ihe simpllest ot many option screens

'* how things lhould go

The tipster bench-test results

Results over a seven day period three toces per-day

2 1 wpe'ato toces delated. Positions and odds.

Beit value represents the best each-way bet. as a result best values can be placed
anywheio r> the ttnt three All odds ate toi/agonsT
Na third place details available.

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Firsts

Seconas

20/1
4/0

11/8

Remthai naser 11/10
GoWen celttc 8/11

Von glory 4/9

VWigspan 4/5

Farm week 6/2

Shatpfofd 14/1

Auntie oof 7/2

SworoSmlfh 6/1
Fair fortune 6/5

Desert pom 11/4

Bo^t vCllUO

Kolas princes 50/1
Shorptcfd 14/1
Gardeners choice 5/1

Auntie dot 7/2
Riviera magic 6/1
Swordsmrm 6/1

Deepaecaion 5/1

Koohan 7/4
Centoursong 10/1

Farm week

5/2

WrWrtas details should be considered as a close approximate,
if 0 £1.00 bet was placed on me nose ot each of Tipiton predttod winners over the
sample period, the total winnings would be £3500 this memoes the return stake of
£8 00 on winning horsos. minus the £21 00 original stoke leaves you with £14.00 ot puie
profit Try to contain yourself, you gamblng fool youl

f>*ow hero's the bod news. If SI 00 each way was placed on the best value horse
in each of the races, i m afraid a low ot £0.75 would have been the sod result £4200
stake money with a miserable £32-25 return

Keep In mind that the bench test was conducted over a '©kjflveN short penod
when making your judgement on the progtam Perhaps with the requved effort you
could see some results but you woukJ have to be very keen on the Goe-Geei either
that o» very greeav

Ir you are a wild eyed thrill
seeker, who lives only to dis-
patch mutant scum to anoth-
er dimension, this Is probably not
the one for you On the other
hand, If you're o level headed
type who enjoys an occasional
flutter and wants to lake a little of
the gamble ouf of gambling The
Tipster could be Ideal,

The program is designed to be
used In conjunction with any daily
newspaper either home or abr ood
which gives good quality racing
coverage - the Daly Mirror being
recommended for British races

Unlike most programs, the first
thing to do is NOT slam the disk m
and see what happens. Read the
instructions - It's well worth the
effort This will explain the rather
complex procedure Involved In
entering details for your first meet-
ing.

The first thing to do Is to An in your
data sheet, which should contain
oil the information relating to the
meeting and your first race. And I
do mean off - date, course, going,
time, dlstonce. runners and the
type of race. A list of all the top
trainers and Jockeys Is also
required And I'm afraid this is just
the beginning. Now come the
details for each horse.

These must include the trainer
and jockey, recent form, weight
carried, the age, its favourite soap
opera... in short everything thot
relates to the horse and tts recent
outings- 'his must be repeated for
every nag in fhe race, a daunting
prospect, but perhaps not as
daunting as facing your other halt
with the news that tne housekeep-
ing is still to clear the last at
Newmarket.

Once your data sheet is com-
plete, slam In the disk. OK. this Is
your chance to type all the infor-
mation from the data sheet Into

Graphic 1 e pre sen lotion of predictions

Try lo control your excitement

your Amiga. I'm told that, wilh
practice, the requited info can be
entered directly Into the machine
from the newspaper at a rate of
four races per halt hour.

The program operates via
mouse and keyboard, options
being selected by activating fhe
window via mouse. Then alter-
ations are made with the key-
board. Unfortunately this process
must be carried out for every Input
of data, which means constant
jumping from keys to mouse, which
dramatically slows things down.

The operating system is a classic
case of over design. A straight-for-
ward keyboard controlled file for-
mat may not have been as pretty,
but a lot more user friendty.

After all the typing and clicking
1$ over, the program makes an
analysis ot the race, hopefully giv-
ing you the forecast for first and
second, plus the best value bet
avalloble. This con be displayed m
forecast, graph, full data and print-
out formats. Also all data can be
save to drsk rf required.

User parameters can also be
created. This allows the details for
different types of races to be
saved on to olsk - useful if you fee)
confident that your system may be
better concerning certain race.

Buying Tipster gives you access
to the backup service provided by
Tom Marketing - monthly news let-
ter, discount upgrades, a Saturday
betting service and alt sorts of
goodies. At a small fee.ot course,

THE TIPSTER - INTERN AT10NAI
T.A.M. Marketing (0395) 513558
£29 95

This is by no means the simplest of pro-
grams to us*, but If you are willing to
moke the effort you may be on 0 nice
little earner.

THE AMIGA 500 PC/XT IS HERE

Run Professional
MS DOS Software
on your Amiga 500 at
a price you can afford

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Povn*

Why did you buy an Amiga 500?

Of course, because of its superb graphics, music and animation capabilities. However if you
want to get serious, you soon realise that it is distinctly lacking in memory and professional
software.

Well - they said it could never happen - but it's here at last!

You! In your own home can transform your Amiga 500 into a real IBM compatible with
Amiga memory expansion up to one and a half megabytes.

It's simple - no screwdriver, no soldering iron and no technical knowledge required. Just

iurn your Amiga over, open the cover, slide the Power PC Board into the connector, close

the cover and your Amiga PC/XT Is ready. (In other words, no loss of guarantee)

You are now ready to use a wealth ol professional MS DOS software at speeds faster than a

PC/XT (ind. review), and In colour, witn compatibility thanks to Phoenix-Bios.

You can also rely on the correct date and time at any moment in Amiga and MS DOS mode.

* Video support: monochrome. Hercules and Colour Graphics Adaplor (CGA)
(4 and 8 colours)

* Disk support: Internal 3.5" external 3.5' external 525' drive (Somvare-upgiaoe to H/D
A590 in pipeline)

* Including MS DOS 4.01 . MS DOS shell and GW Baste (market value approx £130.00)

* Including English Microsoft books » KCS manual

* Further exciting software upgrades in the pipeline

* Available memory; 704KB * 64KB EMS In MS DOS mode. 1 megabyte i 512KB RAM
(disk) buffer in Amiga mode

* No extra power supply necessary lhanks to the most modern CMOS and ASIC lechnology

* OK with TV. No special monitor required

* Price: £299.00 Including VAT and Postage.
Access and Visa accepted.

* For export price please contact us

* Trade enquiries welcome (UK - Scandinavia - and all English language.)

Compatibility it excellent bat no-one can guarantee every single program available, therefore It your
purchase depends on a particular program, please ask us tirst or send In a copy ot the program. (With
suitable S.A.E. it lo be relumed/. Price subject to change without notice.

Bitcon Devices Ltd.

88 BEWICK ROAD, GATESHEAD,
TYNE & WEAR, NE8 1RS ENGLAND.
Tel: (091)4901919/4901975.
Fax: (091) 4901918

AMIGA

VIDEO

COLOUR

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£69.95
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Actual Digitised
colour screen - shots

Vidi-RGB is an electronic filter which takes a colour video sig-
nal and separates it into the three primary colours (Red, Green and Blue) allowing
each to be digitised.

Ideal for use with Vidi-Chrome & Frame Grabber or Digi-View Gold (By Newtek).

All these
pictures are
actual

unretouched
screen-shots

.illustrating the
sequence of
creating a full
colour image
using Vidi RGB,
Vidi-Chrome
and Vidi Amiga.

For use with colour Digitisers replacing conventional Filter sets.

Our Vidi - Chrome switches Vidi - RGB automatically grabbing full
colour pictures in less than one second.

Digitise full colour images direct from
home VCR (must have perfect freeze frame)

Digitise outstanding colour pictures
direct from Canon's new Still Video Camera
(an example shown on cover)

Manual switching
for maximum flexibility.

* Fully compatible
with Digi - View Gold.

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